Word: furor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tunesmith Grever never expected her Spanish-style Ti-Pi-Tin to rival the Spanish-style waltz Ramona in popularity. She had long been known as a composer of some 450 Spanish ditties and more or less serious concert songs, had reached grandmotherhood without seeing any of them create a furor. But last week, as Ti-Pi-Tin reached its fourth consecutive week as Tin Pan Alley's top seller, Grandmother Grever began to challenge Tunesmith Wayne's record...
...surgeon, Margery does not use her singular gifts to turn over a profit. Her control, who speaks and thinks for her when she is entranced, is "Walter," a deceased brother. Some years ago Margery asserted that fingerprints mysteriously produced in dental wax were Walter's-hence ectoplasmic. A furor broke loose when Prof. Harold Cummins, Tulane University anatomist, testified that the fingerprints were those of a living Boston dentist...
...Sumners Act-passed with no furor at all in the early stages of the Court fight last winter-gave Supreme Court Justices who were over 70 the right to retire instead of resigning, with full pay of $20.000 a year guaranteed against any possible reduction by Congress. Justice Willis Van Devanter retired last May. Justice Sutherland's letter consequently reduced the rock-ribbed conservative element on the bench to two (Justices Butler and McReynolds), removed the potential balance of power from the middle-of-the-road conservatives (Chief Justice Hughes and Justice Roberts), gave the liberal wing (Justices Brandeis...
Representative Joseph Jefferson Mansfield of Columbus, Tex. is one of the two members of Congress who operate in wheel chairs.* A gentle, mild-mannered oldster of 76, who has been paralyzed since 1921, Congressman Mansfield created a furor in 1932 when he rolled himself down to the rostrum to sign a petition to discharge the Judiciary Committee from further consideration of a proposal to modify the 18th Amendment, and thus bring it to the floor. His was the 145th signature which the petition needed to become effective, a coincidence by which Congressman Mansfield professed to be greatly surprised. Last week...
...Among startling unlocked for discoveries were X-rays, natural radioactivity, artificial radioactivity. X-rays caused such a furor among laymen after their discovery by Roentgen that the New Jersey Legislature introduced a law forbidding their use in opera glasses, for fear that prurient individuals would be able to see through the garments of ladies...