Word: pother
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still rank heresy to suggest that a great deal of the pother and nuisance caused by congressional investigations can be traced to one fundamental weakness of the U.S. Constitution of today, namely, its obsolescence ? When, in every other phase of American activity, there is continual renovation and change, it seems a pity that the people of the U.S. should be quite content with a rigid and antique political procedure...
...letter-writers had quoted practically the whole Bible, a damnable thing happened to perdition-preaching Theologian Hallesby: he was convicted of tax fraud over a period of at least ten years. He resigned his presidency of the Lutheran Inner Mission Society, stopped preaching, canceled a lecture tour. But the pother he had started went on. Should Hell be preached as part of the Gospel, or shouldn...
Despite all the current pother about the mechanics of painting, there are actually so few ways of putting color on canvas that abstractionists get grey trying to think up new tricks. Last week artists and camp followers were flocking into a Manhattan gallery to pay homage to a stranger who had succeeded, a husky Parisian named Nicolas de Staël.* Artist de Staël quickly explained that he is not so much concerned with abstraction for its own sake as with the expression of moods aroused in him by nature. Said he: "I am trying to say what...
...Phillips would suggest that Shakespeare should be 'translated' for the poor moderns who cannot possibly understand his archaic English." Said another: "Our translations of the Bible and our Prayer Book are written in our own language at its best period. What is all the pother about...
...colonel's statement threw the Pentagon into a pother. The Department of Defense denounced it as a "terrible blunder," an example of "lowlevel thinking," disowned the report. But despite the storm that broke on the colonel, no one contradicted his facts-and no one took action against Major General Floyd L. Parks, Chief of Army Public Information, who had cleared his statement...