putterings, 579-578, 574
Dressing should be done quickly,
as slow, puttering dressing is a strain on the nerves. ₁
Julia being the well and strong one, volunteered to do the washing and ironing.
She said, “she’d rather have a good day’s work and be done with it,
but could not endure puttering around all the time.”
Even Lucille failed to notice the tempest, the whirlwind,
the tornado of ₂ puttering around centuries-old classrooms.
But that is now at risk ₃
sources :
- a “remarkable remark” by Lillian Russell, on dressing, in The Independent (October 30, 1916) : 177
more - The Stalwarts; or, Who Were to Blame?, A novel, portraying fifty years of American history, showing those political complications which have, in the United States culminated in Civil War, and even in the Assasination of two good Presidents. By Frances Marié Norton, the only sister of Charles J. Guiteau. (Chicago: Frances Marié Norton, Publisher, 1888) : 59
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