pother

Example Sentences

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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hardly less of a pother has Caltech's famed Robert Andrews Millikan made by his controversies with colleagues who did not see his cosmic ray theories as he did.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 epistolary pother had its genesis on June 13, when Watt and Arens sat together at a Washington banquet.

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Lord! but Major Westfall is in a pother!

From The Little Red Foot by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)