Word: furore
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Barnes, the South Philadelphia boy who invented Argyrol, made millions, and settled down to insult Philadelphia society and accumulate paintings, sometimes gets a yen for a philosopher. His favorite, and frequent drinking companion, is John Dewey. In 1940, blaming the C.C.N.Y. furor on "bigoted authoritarians," Barnes hired Bertrand Russell for the Barnes Foundation, an art school connected with the gallery...
...biggest U.S. literary mystery of the decade. For three years this mystery caused a stir in U.S. intellectual life equaled only by the agitation over the question: who should play Scarlett O'Hara in the movie version of Gone With the Wind? No doubt the publishers expect this furor will turn Reprisal into a bestseller. But Reprisal is no Escape. The book is a slow-moving study of French life under the Nazis, with drama, romance and coincidences burning sometimes as intensely but always as reluctantly as green oak logs...
Reason for all this furor in the air: German submarines under the water...
...there was no longer "habitual indifference to Governmental management." Governmental management-and mismanagement-was burning the people up. But what could they do? They had thrown a vaudeville dancer out of Civilian Defense; they had got themselves a one-man management of war production; they had kicked up a furor that killed Pensions-For-Congress...
...skull was found at a depth of 130 feet in a large Middle Tertiary gravel, and, if one could trust its position, that would indicate a great age and would prove the presence in America of a race of prehistoric men older even than the Neanderthal man. A great furor raged around this question, even invading the realm of poetry as is shown by the following verses written on the subject by Bret Harte...