Word: furore
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Probably no mayoralty contest in the United States has ever aroused more furor than the LaGuardia-McKee-Tammany struggle in the home of Broadway. From Times Square to the Pacific it is continuous front-page copy. But New York is not the only ostrich in the zoo. Boston, too, is witnessing one of the fiercest knock-down drag-outs of its history. And in both cases the reason for the excitement is exactly the same. A really able man, one who is neither crook nor incompetent, has a betting chance to be elected...
What Sir John said to Prince Bismarck when he heard these "observations" remained their secret, but Europe's chancelleries flew at once into a diplomatic furor. It was discovered that Benito Mussolini had also received a copy of the "observations" in Rome, but none had been handed to Ambassador Davis at Geneva or to French Foreign Minister Joseph Paul-Boncour. What was Germany trying to do-split the U. S.. British, French, Italian disarmament front...
...huge loan to Detroit's big banks he would "denounce it from the housetops," but he asserted Washington officialdom from President Hoover down was opposed to the loan and for the same reason: inadequate security. The R. F. C., he said, was gun-shy after the public furor over Charles Gates Dawes's $90,000,000 loan and, aware of the nation wide banking crisis, was leery of sinking millions in Detroit. Furthermore R. F. C. Chairman Miller considered the loan "immoral" because the collateral offered had been stripped from the sound banks in the Guardian group while...
...cameo brooches, heavy rhinestone trinkets, voluptuous oversize imitation pearls, exotic velvet shoulder flowers for evening and feathers of all kinds- ostrich, bird and barnyard - on boas, capes, muffs and epaulets which are snap-fastened to evening frocks. ¶ Hats concede only their trimmings (fur & feathers) to the Mae West furor and are mostly peaked berets, low-crowned sailors, draped turbans. Stylists noted particularly that : Maggy Rouff plumps for small Victorian basque waists flat in front and back but spreading shell-like from the hips, fur peplums on street jackets and huge pouch pockets which flap from the belts of sport...
...Australian cities, where income taxes are terrific, these revelations promptly started a second furor. Shifting their attack from Dean Johnson to Premier Lyons, irate Australian editors warned him "not to dare to create within our Commonwealth something like a foreign country...