Word: furor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...furor over the new fashions rose to a fine, shrill pitch. Across the land, women by the hundreds-and city editors, too-flocked to the banners of resistance...
Despite all this todo, polls showed that, though a majority of U.S. women disliked the new styles, all but a handful planned to wear them. Oldsters recalled that there had been a furor, too, over the hobble skirt of the early 1900s and the above-the-knee skirt of the '20s, yet fashion had prevailed...
...divided as to whether she is a boon or a blight. She constantly interferes in state affairs, and certain it is that her highhanded palace intrigues have earned Perón many an enemy he might not otherwise have had. Last fall Eva threw the Argentine Senate into a furor when she charged into a sacrosanct closed session to demand immediate appointment of some friends as judges. The outraged Senators politely told her to scram. When Evita complained to Juancito, the entire body was summoned to the Casa Rosada to be scolded officially for bad manners...
Died. The Most Rev. Michael Joseph Curley, 67, Irish-born Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore and Washington, outspoken foe of movies, Nazis and Communists (he caused a 1941 press furor when he said: "We of the U.S. are fighting side by side with Stalin, the greatest murderer of men the world has ever known"); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Baltimore...
...Faculty action of April 15 which created such a furor was simply a move to make permanent the war-born system and prevent restriction of joint instruction when the University returns to "normal" in June, 1948. Harvard and Radcliffe, despite the partial fusion of faculty and courses and the high percentage of Radcliffe students that eventually marry Harvard men, have been and will continue to be two separate institutions. Continuation of the present policy, which permits 'Cliffedwellers to take Harvard courses above Freshman level, will keep to a minimum the number of professors who hold forth in New Lecture Hall...