Word: furor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the General near, the Reichswehr goose-stepped, saluted, and were proudly inspected amid a furor of monarchist enthusiasm. Alas, as night fell and the General departed, the peasants of the region (Polish sympathizers) would offer the resplendent Reichswehr only pigpens as billets, withstood weary soldiers with pitchforks. Enraged, the authorities arrested hundreds of peasants and temporarily confiscated their property for military purposes...
Shades of the early Victorian period are rampant once more. Despite Mr. Bryan and the existence of certain dogmatic sects, most educated men had supposed, until the recent furor in Tennessee was stirred up, that the old debate of evolution vs. religion had been stilled forever. The truth of the theory of evolution, it seemed, had been universally acknowledged; and the necessary theological readjustments, made by the greatest intellectual figures of those bitter days, had become the basis of the modern world's view of life...
...Club, London, a sports ground entirely surrounded by dwellings, a vast concourse of people assembled to see an international interuniversity one-mile relay race. Three university teams took part: Cambridge (all English), Pennsylvania (all American), Oxford (two Americans, one Canadian, one English). They finished in that order amid a furor of British enthusiasm. The time was 3 min. 22 3/5 sec., a poor showing against the British record of 3 min. 18 1/5 sec. and the world's record, established by the American Legion of the State of Pennsylvania...
...this had happened, the country would have been in a furor of excitement. Yet such an action by those electors would have been completely authorized by the Constitution; and not only authorized but (if the electors deemed that Henry Ford was a more fitting President than Calvin Coolidge or any other) actually what the makers of the Constitution had intended. More than that, such an action might actually have taken place if, in their wisdom, the makers of the Constitution had decreed that the members of the electoral college were to meet all together instead of in their respective states...
...winds and in its place reigned a thousand and one flecting memories of government lectures and courses in Parliamentary procedure. A principle was at stake that had to be defended, and defended it was in fifty-seven different ways, until a wise adjournment brought an end to the furor...