pother

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Despite all the current pother about the mechanics of painting, there are actually so few ways of putting color on canvas that abstractionists get grey trying to think up new tricks.

From Time Magazine Archive

The pother at Yale had begun the week before, when a fine fall of late winter snow had coincided with a fettlesome rise of early spring sap.

From Time Magazine Archive

There were signs last week that the pother about U.S. schools was no longer exclusively the jousting ground of editors and educationists.

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The colonel's statement threw the Pentagon into a 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