Word: pother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Party ticket. Forthwith they foil the villainess, Mrs. Alderman Busy (Joan Young), a battle-ax burlesque of Lady Astor. With the aid of Big Ben the barge-master (David Davies), they abduct her from the floor of the House of Commons while she is proposing Prohibition. And after much pother and porridge, all factions unite in a flag-waving finale ("Big Ben! Big Ben! . . . Chime out again and tell all men that England's England still...
Aplomb. With lofty disdain, Wall Street traders set their sights far beyond last week's pother of strikes, wage demands, price-control squabbles and reconversion growing pains. Bursting with confidence in the future industrial boom (and the hope of lower taxes), the traders bid up the price of industrial stocks to an eight-year high...
...inarticulate draft board, the saddest parts of the pother were that Ingersoll had told it he would not permit his employer to ask for his deferment, that Marshall Field's telegram to General Hershey was filed late and out of order, that the board had never been favored with proof of Field's claim that his editor was indispensable. Nonetheless the case was sent up to an Appeal Board, while PM still fulminated...
Elsewhere along the Axis there was just as much pother. The Italian press simply parroted Berlin's official statements. Tokyo, on the other hand, showed plainly how puzzled it felt. Japanese papers dug up the dirtiest word they could think of, called Hess an Anglophile because he was born in Alexandria, lived there until he was twelve years old. (Until 1939 his father and mother remained in Egypt.) The land of Bushido (loyalty) could not understand how a man could run out on his boss. If it was all a great big clever Axis plot, the Japanese were...