Word: furor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what is left of the Pabst brewery (Milwaukee) have been thousands of bottles of medicinal malt tonic. Last week permits to make and sell the tonic were issued by the prohibition section of the Treasury Department to Pabst of Milwaukee and AnheuserBusch of St. Louis. Professional Anti-Saloon League furor ensued, and thus the names of two firms, once household words, flickered in U. S. minds which had almost buried them in subconscious limbo...
...temporary deviation from this policy," said Mr. Dana, who has been a close follower of the Dramatic Club's work, and instrumental in its choice of plays for several years. "This year they are going to try a revival, the widely known "Brown at Harvard," which created such a furor at the time of its first production, twenty years ago. This play, which was written by a Radcliffe graduate, Mrs. Ryder Young, enjoyed a successful run in New York and other cities for over a year. It was given at both Yale and Princeton with great success. Finally it came...
...Harvard University--Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition there will be brought to light no treasures of gold and skillfully worked jewelry. There will be discovered no intact furniture and no completely preserved mummy of a great pharaoh. The Egyptain government, warned by the world fame and furor caused by the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb, has taken every precaution to prevent the story from coming to the public through the press. Egyptain newspapers have been forced to keep absolute silence and very little has come to the press in Europe and America...
...action of Mr. Foxen Cooper, "British Technical Adviser of Cine- matography," in permitting only a single cinema firm to photograph the signing of the Locarno Treaties, precipitated a furor of protest from rival firms. Mr. Cooper imperturbably remarked: "I am sure that this restriction was wisely adopted...
...imagine what a furor this news will cause in the "What the Well-Dressed Man Will Wear" columns in Vanity Fair and theatre programs. Having missed being the heralds of a new age, Cholly Knickerbocker and Beaunash will probably commit suicide. It may soon become the fashion for engaged Columbia couples to exchange compacts at Christmas, perfectly assured that their presents will satisfy; and, beyond doubt, everyone will be rejoiced to see some saint in the compacts which haberdashers have always had on display along with perfume sprays and manicure sets...