pother

Example Sentences

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For ten years cosmic rays have made a pother in the scientific news.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus it was amid no end of Imperial pother last week that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain ended his holiday in Scotland, resumed the helm at No. 10 Downing Street.

From Time Magazine Archive

With lofty disdain, Wall Street traders set their sights far beyond last week's pother of strikes, wage demands, price-control squabbles and reconversion growing pains.

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Indiana's freshman Democratic Representative Randall S. Harmon, 55, shrugged off all the bother as mere pother.

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Here are the flowers, Miss Brathwaite,” he said, handing her the innocent cause of all the pother.

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Mitford, Bertram