pother

Example Sentences

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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.

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

But the pother he had started went on.

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

He fetched up a sigh as he ended which would have done credit to my Lady Oxford; and Wogan, seeing his friend in this unwonted pother, was minded to laugh him out of it.

From Parson Kelly by Lang, Andrew