Word: fracases
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It was 36 hours before the Manhattan Press got wind of the Sands Point fracas. By that time Senator Long was in Milwaukee to address the convening Veterans of Foreign Wars. When a New York Sun reporter called the Senator by long distance telephone for his version of what happened...
Eager to take advantage of the publicity which this unexpected coup offered, the Lampoon treasurer conferred at once with CRIMSON editors to determine what policy they should follow in dealing with the captive, in order to afford the best stories for metropolitan papers. Meantime, efficient telephoning from the Lampoon office...
Bayreuth will suffer sadly if exposed to Hitleritis. Toscanini has not conducted in Italy since the fracas over the Fascist anthem. Boston hurt herself more than she hurt Karl Muck when she ousted him on an unproven Wartime charge of pro-Germanism. After the Revolution. Russia forced most of her...
The bombing of Father Coughlin's house came with singular if not sinister timeliness. He immediately charged that it was an attempt at intimidation, a further persecution of him by his enemies. Having leaped into the thick of Detroit's banking fracas (TIME, April 3), Father Coughlin had...
Since the signing of the Armistice, in 1918, about twenty wars of varying size have been fought all over the world. There were the Imperialist and Polish wars against the Soviet Union, the Grace-Turkish fracas, the Poles versus Galicia, the Afghan invasion of India, and the war between Roumauta...