Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...magic writ called an amparo. When he walked into the store soon afterward and the detectives tried to arrest him, he produced the amparo. With a sigh of frustration, the cops shut the books and went away. The bookseller could be reasonably sure that they would not bother him again for another three months...
...nothing to stand on while I throw such a spitball. Would a few well-placed spitballs have saved Hemingway from the pitfall of delusion wherein he has knocked out Flaubert and others? If Hemingway does not need defending, as Mr. Faulkner asserts, why did Mr. Waugh and Mr. Faulkner bother? Is it that they are trusting to be his seconds when he gets into the ring with Shakespeare...
...Hollywood has cooked up all year. Though some of the slapstick enlivens a few moments, Never a Dull Moment gives a moviegoer plenty of time to wonder why well-to-do Songwriter Dunne doesn't plow her royalties into the ranch and save everyone a lot of bother...
None of this has been as easy as it seems today. Back in the day of the barefoot boy and the pigtailed girl, when children collected bugs and horseshoe nails, licked the eggbeater and looked at stereopticon slides for entertainment, any tailgate medicine spieler ("Get away, boys, you bother me") could hold them spellbound. Even so, only the more daring of the barefoot set got within range of the flares and banjo music; parents felt that the childish brain should be allowed to age at least as long as good whisky before being exposed to such works of the devil...
Crimson coach Norm Shepard started sophomore Jim Urdan at right forward, Jim Stevenson at left forward, Jim Gabler at left guard, and Bill Hickeyatright. Smith replaced Lionette, captain of last year's freshman team, in the third quarter, but played only a few minutes before his leg began to bother him and he had to leave the game. Skinner, who started three years at Columbia, was a standout for the Business School...