Word: pother
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...usual, there is a pother about the new-rules and an argument as to how they shall be interpreted...
...what was all this about? What high crime or mighty treason loomed? A man from Mars would have laughed to learn that the whole impressive pother sprang from a few oaths and reprimands uttered by peppery Rear Admiral Bernard St. George Collard (TIME, March...
...revenue officers. After numberless corpses have been strewn about the scene, she is able to declare that at last she has found Adventure and Romance with a capital "A" and a capital "R". It is all rather amusing, however, and much better than a great deal of the pother we are now served on the silver screen...
...public, expectant and steeped in Kiplingisms, unjustifiably muttered uncomplimentary things and turned up its collective nose at what Dr. Bridges did give it. The matter became serious; the murmuring grew to open and vociferous criticism. The public grievance was even aired in Parliament. But all this fuss and pother was to no avail. When the "old man" on Boar's Hill heard about it, he said unpoetically: "I don't give a damn!" When the public heard that, it rather liked it. and settled down to like Dr. Bridges, just as it had settled down to like Queen...
Without fuss or pother a dark, good-looking man, accompanied by three attendants, boarded the Orient Express at Sofia, Bulgarian capital (TIME, Aug. 8). Next morning newspapers announced in Slavic, King Boris had departed on vacation. Not a word of his destination escaped...