Word: furor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Amid so much furor, few South Africans had time to dissect and rationalize their new flag. Basically it is a horizontal tricolor, reading from top to bottom orange, white and blue. In the centre of the white stripe is superimposed the old Orange Free State flag, hanging vertically. Adjoining, on the white, is the Union Jack, spread toward the flagstaff. Lastly the old Transvaal vierkleur is superimposed upon the white, spreading away from the staff. Thus the new flag, which might be called the "Union Union Jack" is one big tricolor with three little flags stitched...
Dawn has appeared in the U. S., thoroughly emasculated. A passive audience, brief applause greeted the first Manhattan showing of the British film that had put Parliament in a furor (TIME, March 12). The climactic scene-the execution of Nurse Edith Cavell-has been practically killed. Sybil Thorndike, who plays the role of Nurse Cavell, is shown facing a German firing squad. One German soldier refuses to raise his rifle when the command is given. There is a pause, a blot-out; then the grave of Nurse Cavell is flashed on the screen. In the original film, the disobedient soldier...
...more than useful improvement for the benefit of Rotton Row riders was suggested recently by dashing Major George Melas, once private secretary to the late King Constantine of Greece. George Melas created a furor among smart, horsey people by proposing that a special riding track with fences (hurdles) be laid out adjoining the Row. Added he: "It would not only promote real horsemanship, but would also afford a display of skill to pedestrians who go to the Row to watch the riders going aimlessly up and down the same straight, monotonous line, showing only that they can hold a saddle...
Amid ensuing furor Finance Minister Georges Kafandaris resigned both his portfolio and his leadership of the Liberals, then announced that he had broken with Venizelos and would form a separate party. Amid frenzied political jockeying the Coalition Cabinet of Alexander Zaimis found its majority in the Chamber dispersed and proceeded to resign. As the hubbub increased and one effort after another to form a new coalition failed, Greek news organs quoted the Old Man of Crete as observing serenely: "I shall resume the Prime Ministry...
...What "furor" meant to Desiré Mercier was discreetly hinted by foxy Architect Warren, who revealed that the Cardinal said, two months before his death: "When the Germans come back [to Louvain] as they will and as they have through the past centuries, when they read this inscription countersigned by America perhaps they may behave themselves more decently than they did the last time...