Word: fussing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...musicians sent him a present on his becoming an octogenarian two years ago, he forbade them to do it again. One relenting proviso: if they liked, they might each save a dime a year to buy him a present when he reached 90. Until then, he scowled, no more fuss...
...last week, Arturo Toscanini reached a pink-and-white 82. There was no fuss. His musicians, a handful of distinguished singers, and a Robert Shaw-trained chorus of 60 voices gave him the kind of birthday present he could hardly grump about. In NBC's Manhattan studio 8-H, they played and sang their hearts out on the music the little maestro loves most...
...know all the fuss they made about that owl," says Jim insignantly. "Well these damn hawks we got up here kill twice as many birds, and have you ever seen anyone go after them...
...this Gallic fuss was stirred up by a simple enough story. Lycée Student François Jaubert (Gerard Philipe), too young to take part in World War I, falls passionately in love with Marthe Grangier (Micheline Presle). The devil in François' flesh is more than adolescent sex; it is also a blind adolescent ego, full of the power to hurt. Half-man and half-child, François mockingly helps Marthe select the furniture for the home she is to share with her husband, who is fighting at the front. Then he moves...
...book could easily have become an understandable but embarrassing statement of grief, or a father's equally embarrassing eulogy. This one is neither. Gunther is interested in neither tears nor personal royalties (both his proceeds and the publisher's profits go to cancer research for children). Without fuss, in simple, almost conversational style, he expresses the love and comradeship he felt for his son, gives a step-by-step account of cancer's inexorable victory. In so doing, Gunther arouses in the reader an almost deliberate passion to help find the dark enemy and destroy...