Word: furore
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...answer his ceaselessly jangling phone, slit open with satisfaction scores of telegrams and cables of sympathy and indignation, many from U. S. citizens. Good or bad, the reasons for the dramatic ouster of War Secretary Hore-Belisha, which caught the British public wholly unprepared and raised a world furor, were easily grasped by military men and politicians...
...painter of unquestionable ability. . . Bellamy Partridge's "Country Lawyer" reconstructs an interesting side of rural life in an older America. . . . "The 1940 New Yorker Album" assembles an excellent selection of the most unique cartoon humor in the world. . . . James Thurber's "The Last Flower" has been causing a mild furor of late, with its poetic parable of the future of our civilization. Unequivocally recommended. . . "U.S. Camera Annual: 1940" is edited by Steichen which means that it should be the best available, and is . . . Hyman Levy's "Modern Science" is a difficult but rewarding study of the physical sciences. . . Agnes Newton...
...open on a European battlefront in 1912, with Charlie shouldering arms for Ptomania (variant: Bacteria) against the "Alliars." After a series of Chaplinesque trench experiences, Charlie returns home to Ptomania's capital Ptom, soon finds everything being run by a little cock-of-the-walk named Hinkle. When "Furor" Hinkle appears, all cry Hail and even dachshunds must raise their legs. Hinkle's sidekick is Dictator Mussemup of Ostrich, an egomaniac who stops traffic when he wants to tell a dirty joke...
...rebel against this regime, Charlie is shipped to a concentration camp, from which he escapes in stormtroopers' uniform, is mistaken for the Furor. With the real Furor imprisoned as an impostor, masquerading Charlie is involved by his air minister, Herring, in an aggressive campaign to humble the neighboring State of Vanilla. It is to the people of Vanilla, soon humbled, that old Pantymimist Chaplin makes his first big speech: "I don't want to conquer anybody. I want to do good by everybody. Because-because this is a big world, and there's plenty of room...
...should recommend that the Council take every sport individually, study it, consult captains, players, coaches, Bingham, Samborski, and House secretaries until they know what they are talking about, and then, resisting the impulse to generalize, confine themselves to specific recommendations for each sport. I believe more progress and less furor would follow. John M. Barnaby, Coach Tennis and Squash...