Word: furor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though such lively campaign utterances raised a furor of criticism, the electoral results showed 79 representatives potentially for repeal of the O. T. A. and only 32 left to support it. Within ten minutes after the returns were announced shares of Canadian Industrial Alcohol rose to a total increase in value of $3,200,000, and other Ontario distillery stocks similarly skyrocketed...
...Garrick Theatre on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday nights. The other current Pirandello play, Naked, might lead theatregoers to suppose that this one from the same pen is also dull, verbose, untheatrical. They will be surprised, for in none of Broadway's numerous playhouses is such a constant, hilarious furor maintained. With hands discreetly hiding the lips that betray unseemly amusement, the audience chortles furtively but distinctly. For this Pirandello play is broad. Sea Captain Petella, a blustering fellow, who returns to his wife once every three months or so, absolutely refuses to do his natural duty as a husband...
When we see such amazing intolerance on the part of progressive and educated ministers in the U. S. A., perhaps it is easy to understand the furor among the anti-Christian students in China. But, as a matter of fact, these aforesaid students do not represent the attitude of the best Chinese. For their priests and temple officials are almost universally gracious and hospitable toward Christianity, and most of our summer student conferences are held in Buddhist and Confucian temples. I could pray that some of our learned Christian leaders might have more of the spirit of Christ...
Europeans, getting word of the furor, were inclined to be scornful of "American hysteria." Emma Calve, living now in retirement on the Riviera, took it more personally. For had not she and her sisters in singing had years of preparation before they were ready for the Metropolitan? She was indignant, protested last week against the system which would permit of such a premature Metropolitan debut. Said she: "No singer should be subjected to such a test without at least ten years' preparatory work on other stages. . . . Too much publicity at an early age and not enough hard work...
...children. To their home have come notables from every walk of life and Burbank's name, the most notable in his walk of life, has entered every household in civilization. Among his closest friends were Henry Ford and Thomas Alva Edison. His death was doubtless hastened by the furor that arose when he stated his religious views publicly, a statement excited by news of Henry Ford's alleged belief in theosophy, and inspired by his own belief that "the unpardonable sin of man is ignorance. . . . There is no salvation whatever except through science...