Word: furore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most startling statement-that nothing could have saved London in September if for the next five days Hitler had been willing to lose 200 planes a day-raised a furor in Britain when it was published in Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express. A Canadian correspondent was deputed by Empire newsmen to challenge Ingersoll's story. The Daily Express said editorially that it did not agree with Ingersoll's view...
Last week Superintendent Nourse, decreeing that "the common playing card" was not an educational material, unceremoniously ended the experiment. His decree threw San Francisco's school system into a furor. Indignant parents formed a committee, circulated petitions, marched to Mr. Nourse's office and demanded that contract bridge be made a part of the curriculum. Besides teaching youngsters 1) citizenship, 2) mathematics, 3) how to think, they declared that contract bridge was necessary to their children's vocational training. Explained Mrs. D. R. Minton: "I feel contract bridge is a social asset for my daughter...
...weeks ago a furor blew up over the imminent possibility of atomic power when it was learned that Physicists Alfred O. Nier of the University of Minnesota...
...this film version of a Pulitzer prize play is an authentic, moving account of how a sluggish rail-splitter turned President. Hollywood has withstood the temptation to be spectacularly patriotic; and the result is one of those rare historical pictures which are devoid of all furor and fuss...
...quietly at Oxford and writing still more books in a corner of a railway carriage between Ox ford and London. It was probably his his tory of the reign of George V (The King's Grace) that got him his appointment as Governor General. There was such a furor over the appointment of a commoner that the King made him Baron Tweedsmuir (for his home in Scotland) of Elsfield (for his house in Oxford...