Word: fussing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your issue of April 22, under the heading "Chicago Fuss" you slight, if only in a footnote, the other most distinguished of the famous brothers, Dr. Otto L. Schmidt. According to many, Otto is the most distinguished. A noted physician (Chicago, Wurzburg and Vienna), consulting physician to several large hospitals in Chicago, he has been for many years president of the Chicago Historical Society, president of the Inland Yachting Association, but, more important than these, is one of the greatest philanthropists in the country. Quietly he directs amounts, great and small, into channels where the need is most. The money...
...That is why American women do their housekeeping so deftly and with so little fuss. They have always known how! They have grown up without servants, and it has never occurred to them that there is anything derogatory-or splendid-about housework or cooking. Everybody does it! . . . The wife of the ordinary middle-class American cannot then, in the nature of things, be spoiled...
...grown-ups make as much fuss as they please over their Savings Clubs and last-minute-shopping rushes; Christmas remains always a children's festival that no adult can thoroughly appreciate. Other holidays, decreed in all solemnity by the powers that be in honor of birthdays or battles, are occasions enough for the elders to take a day off and indulge in parades and other pleasant diversions. The youngest generations wait for the last of the yearly series to come into their own. To be sure, they seize upon such opportunities as the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving, with sufficient...
Lack of change, probably more than any single factor, has spoiled Marion Talley for Manhattan's most musical. When she made her debut at the Metropolitan in 1926, it was in the full glare of blazing publicity. Critics realized that the fuss was none of her making, that presses all over the U. S. were starved at the time for a good human interest story. They were for the most part kind. She had a pleasant voice. She might some day become an artist. And for three years they waited...
...President Calvin Coolidge. The President was understood to have opined that Mr. Koran's case came solely within the jurisdiction of the French courts. To reporters gathered on the White House lawn Publisher Hearst said: "The French authorities are behaving like spoiled children. . . . Why should they make this ridiculous fuss about the publication of their secret agreement with Great Britain, unless there is something in it that they are ashamed...