Word: furor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senator felt pretty good-humored about most of Europe and was willing to say so. "We have been very well received in all but one country," he announced. "I guess I started a furor in that one country. But I have no apologies to make." He added proudly: "We have been well received by royalty in Denmark and Sweden...
Later Reed summoned thick-spectacled, 43-year-old Anton Karas to London, kept him plucking away at his tunes for six weeks while Reed recorded a sound track. When the film was released two months ago in England, Karas' music caused as much of a furor as Reed's directing, Graham Greene's lickety-split script, or the acting of the all-star cast (Joseph Cotten, Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard...
...while it seemed as if he might not last even that long. In the midst of the furor that followed, one dean guessed that if they had ever voted on the matter, nine out of ten professors would have voted to oust him. But somehow, the vote was never taken...
...Justice de Trajan, raised in the Salon of 1840: "The picture barely survived the Salon's jury, an astonishing fact when we consider that Delacroix had been painting professionally for more than 20 years and was famous throughout Europe . . . Once accepted and hung, the picture created a furor . . . Delacroix had painted Trajan's horse a pinkish-rose color, which the classicists and academicians immediately decried as without precedent in nature...
...private housing program ever stirred up such a furor in Washington as Lustron Corp.'s plan to build 150 enameled steel houses a day-if the Government would put up the money. After some squabbling, RFC obliged. Last week, Arkansas' Senator J. William Fulbright, whose Banking & Currency Sub-committee was digging into RFC's affairs, popped an interesting question: Did people want to live in steel houses? "I have only seen one of them," said Fulbright, "but it sort of reminds you of a bathtub...