Word: furor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington last week the Board of Tax Appeals denied the plea of Actress Lenore Ulric that she be allowed to deduct $11,130 from her taxable income for the years 1927-28. Wooly-headed Miss Ulric, celebrated for her ability to create furor onstage, was quoted as saying that she had spent this sum for strictly business purposes, "entertaining newspaper critics and others...
...Customs Regulations, Committee on Economic Relations. All these began work in secret. Strangely enough it was Mrs. Walter Runciman, ex-M.P.?whose husband was supposed to be a high tariff man in the Baldwin delegation?who unbosomed in such a way as to create the first Conference furor...
This speech, which created a furor of excitement in the House, showed clearly that Baldwin of Baldwin's Ltd. (iron & steel) will go to Ottawa as the special champion of families which like his own have been leaders in British industry for generations. With the weapon of a tariff threat he will try to force the Dominions to abate their locally popular programs of fostering their own "infant industries...
...minister, was especially friendly, lent them a legation car when they had to leave. In a mountain defile their car hit a hidden barricade, both boys were shot to death. The scandal was immense. Under U. S. pressure Taabor Pasha handed over the government to Karadagh. Attracted by the furor came Star Reporter Manfred B. Tate who was addicted to smoking a corncob pipe in hotel dining rooms, served no masters, feared no groups. Reporter Tate sailed right in, investigated along his own peculiar line. When he reached the end of that line he found a very peculiar hook, with...
...translating the Chinese classic Shuihu, written in the 13th Century by Shih Nai-han. Seventy chapters long, this book will not appear before 1934. Sons, a sequel to The Good Earth, is being serialized in Hearst's Cosmopolitan. Mrs. Buck's editors describe her as "overwhelmed by the tremendous furor her works have caused." But Mrs. Buck is sturdy, composed. She has watched Chinese love, starve, kill, die. She knows that "in China interest centres about the work produced and not about the person who produces...