Word: bothering
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...Today, Father, is Father's Day And we're giving you a tie. It's not much, we know, It's just our way of showing you we think you're a regular guy. You say that it was nice of us to bother But it really was a pleasure to fuss, For according to our mother you're our father And that's good enough...
...subsequent strips Spangle, a retail storekeeper, has to bother with special price-ceiling inventories and Government questionnaires (in triplicate...
...shortage doesn't bother us. We just saddle our cockroaches and drive to town...
...stalls, to rent for 50? each a day. They persuaded a millionaire oil producer, Earl Gilmore, to let them use a vacant plot he owned in the Wilshire residential district. Beck wrote radio ads, got them broadcast over KNX on credit. They were directed at farmers ("don't bother to bring us anything but the best"), but shrewdly intended for housewives. Within three months, 3,000 cars were parked out front each day. Now there are 18,000 on Saturdays, 12,000 weekdays. At first the only profit for Dahlhjelm and Beck was $9 a day, split between them...
...Emett's railway carriages is blue with the exhalations of an American Indian sucking his calumet, a Chinese inhaling opium, an East Indian at his hookah and other assorted pipe addicts (the caption, in the mouths of two elderly ladies, is "Bother-it's a smoker!"). An Emett dining car, where rabbit is being served, affords, by virtue of a sharp curve in the track, a view of the train's last car where the demoniac chef is in the act of snatching the bunnies alive from the very roadside. Emett's crazily antiquated rolling stock...