Word: pother
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jacket, large Etonians in toppers and morning coats; small Harrovians in jackets and straw "boaters," large Harrovians in tails and that same straw headgear which the school wears in all seasons. For the rest of the term-until the last of July-British public school boys have no such pother of examinations and commencements as occupy the attention of U. S. students. They study, perhaps with less application than during winter months. Most of their time they devote to sport: cricket, tennis, fives, swimming, and in a number of schools, rowing. Eton is a rowing school, and Eton...
There has been a deal of pother and to do in the public prints and a vast amount of discussion, which, happily, has not been recorded, since the inauguration of the so-called house plan at Harvard and the subsequent announcement that Yale has also been induced to become Harkness-minded. Printed matter from the office of Robert Lamb, the Ivy Lee of Cambridge, and more oblique declarations from President A. Lawrence Lowell (who never makes statements for publication, and so has never at once been wrong and on record for it) have sung in almost lyric phrases the boons...
...Satan in the Suburbs" by Mr. Donaldson just misses the trick. With a novel situation, that of a chance meeting of a student and the Devil in a suburban trolley, the author wanders off in a pother of pseudo-Socratic dialectic, savoring of Shaw's "Man and Superman", and getting nowhere at all. And the fatal mark of the amateur is too often evident--that of needless circumlocution...
...perfunctory fashion, told how a yacht club gave the pair a private dining room, how the Galatea had touched at Catalina, how they sailed away again headed south, etc., etc. There was, perhaps because of Mrs. Moody's well-known composure and lack of flair, remarkably little pother made for so newsworthy a person at so newsworthy a time...