Word: furore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Zoll, a Law School student in 1919-20, created a furor in Cambridge last year when his "Reducators at Harvard" fell into the hands of City Councilman John D. Lynch. The list accused 76 faculty members of association with 124 "subversive" groups...
There was more furor raised over the loss to Centre than several losing seasons have caused in recent Crimson grid history. Contrary to current myth, the Centre eleven was not a bunch of small college hicks from Kentucky. The Colonels had walloped national champion West Virginia the previous year and prior to the 1921 Harvard contest had beaten powerhouse Crimson and run several lesser lights into the ground. The day of the game, in fact, the CRIMSON predicted a "battle royal" and 43,000 fans didn't jam the Stadium to see a rout. They didn...
...Small Voice. Commonweal, which looks like (but usually disagrees with) the pink-eyed Nation, is still generally unfriendly to Franco. Its "progressive opinion" has stirred up many a furor among Catholics. A strong voice of the anti-Communist left, Commonweal is pro-union and consumer cooperatives, and anti-bigotry. It used to whiplash Detroit's ranting Father Coughlin, and blamed Boston's Catholic Irish for the long, grubby reign of Mayor James Michael Curley. When gravediggers at a New York Catholic cemetery struck last year for higher wages, and Cardinal Spellman personally led the strikebreakers, Commonweal sided with...
Last Friday night at a mixer held in the Psi Sigma house, someone took the society's mascot, a disgruntled owl. A furor immediately broke loose. Honor society teas were on tap and it would look bad for Psi Sigma if it had no mascot. One source said the administration was contemplating giving up mixers. Its return saved the longstanding friendly relationship between Wellesley and Harvard from extinction...
...union, has been asking the city to take a larger share of the pension load. It was pushing a bill which would save many patrolmen $220 to $290 a year. New York's Board of Estimate has been stalling. Last week, at the height of the Quill furor, the board dusted off the bill and recommended its adoption...