Word: furor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thundered, Architect Warren ended his declaration with a statement mild as milk. He declared that the official translation of the inscription is "DESTROYED BY TEUTONIC FOLLY; RESTORED BY AN AMERICAN GIFT." He added that Monsignor Ladeuze, Rector of the University of Louvain has finally ruled that the epithet "furore" shall stand. When curious persons turned to Latin dictionaries, last week, to see if "juror" could be stretched to mean "folly." they found as authorized synonyms "delusion," "frenzy," "madness," "rage" and "fury." Nobody's Latin except Architect Warren's could make "furor" mean "folly," as distinct from insanity...
Henry Hentz & Co. reported that this transaction was but typical of other German orders similarly placed, executed and confirmed by telephone in recent weeks. Observers marveled as much at the German enterprise as at the rapid communication. During last fortnight's furor on the New York Stock Exchange, a busy floor man was asked by his office for a quotation on General Electric. "What the-!" he roared. "I can't be bothered for quotations at a time like this!" "But Berlin wants to know. They're holding the wire." Abashed, the floorman dove into the nearest drift...
Said the Americus (Ga.) Times Recorder: "We rather think it a case of religious fanaticism running wild. Pardue is . . . wrapped in his little shell of self-conceit . . . he used underhand methods . . . he soiled the cloth he wears. And what good has his babbling accomplished? . . . He created a furor in his woodland village and he had the pleasure of seeing his name and picture in the papers. . . . For a few days he was a big pig in a little...
But?National Committeeman Creager issued from the White House last week very calm and newsless. "All this furor about what the President meant," he said, "is in the minds of the people generally. But those who know Mr. Coolidge know what he meant . . . that if he can have his way about it he will not be a candidate...
...speaks first?" sputtered one fluttering matron. "You don't think we ought to call her -your Grace' do you?" "Nonsense, my dear, she'd think you were using her first name." "I must ask her what she thought of Lindy!" Into the midst of the furor walked Mrs. Coolidge. One lady, Mrs. M. W. Pangburn, immediately fainted, because, as she explained later, "the prospect of meeting the wife of a President" had caused her to lose consciousness. This was the first Black Hills social function that Mrs. Coolidge had attended. That she chose to make her debut...