pother

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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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Since Army and Navy make a great pother about secrecy in the design and construction of planes, questions had to be asked in Washington.

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This sort of thing may strike the average man as harmless pother, but not Author Rinn.

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Intent on his pursuits, impervious to the demonic, he will not notice the gods' dreadful pother being made above his head.

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Rising with a gesture of impatience to retire from the field, he cried out: 'There, there! what a pother, to be sure!

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis