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...Manhattan theatre. Eithne Magee, chief actress, was bumped in the head by a potato; rotten eggs squashed stickily against the scenery. Fists flew in the audience; police swooped down in platoons, and the performance proceeded to a dishevelled but triumphant curtain. Horrified Irish residents had precipitated the fuss, irate because Synge's Playboy of the Western World, cast doubts upon the purity of an Irish girl. That the play was presented by their own Irish players, specially imported from Dublin, was no sedative...
...worse than the rest of the country as regards wetness," said Pussyfoot, "Colleges are apt to have a reputation for being wet because the shortcomings of a few students get into the papers as typical of all students. If two or three college fellows get drunk and cause a fuss, the story can promptly be found in all the newspapers, but no mention is made of the 10,000 or 20,000 students who ostensibly do not drink. The whole country read the other day of the fraternity in a middle-western university that was found to have a still...
Admiral Magruder: "I don't contemplate any protest. I expect to go without making a fuss...
...vain; the 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...
...years ago, M. Sensaud de Levaud, French inventor, knew this. Since then, he has been tampering, tinkering, planning, pondering and putting together bits of metal which in final form turn out to be a sensible automotive vehicle with no middle parts to fuss over at all. The motor transmits propulsive force directly to the rear end without intercession of transmission gears...