Word: furore
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Just why the State Department does not release the Count from his pledge is not apparent. It is hardly likely that anything he said would start a revolution in this country, or create anything like the furor that has been occasioned by his agreement to keep silent...
...short, "The Wife Hunter" is an entertaining character play which is good without achieving distinction. Successful in London and New York, it will doubtless run for only a short time to moderate houses in Boston, where no play can create a furor unless it falls within the limits of the city's critical taste, which is apparently determined by the various types of vanities, follies, and scandals for the current year...
...office-came from the law school instead of the school of politics-her attacks are beginning to be backed up by dismissals. In Boston, one attorney was summarily removed; and it looks as if her lightning might next strike in New Jersey, where there is at present a furor over enforcement. The new Senator from Massachusetts, William M. Butler, has been looking for a man to fill the Willebrandt-made vacancy...
...resignation of Richard Strauss from the directorship of the Vienna Staatsoper (TIME, Nov. 17) caused no small furor in his native town. His new Intermezzo?described as a "domestic comedy with symphonic interludes"?is the object of further talk...
...course, impossible at this time to judge Trotzky's merits in this new role. Perhaps his historical works are propaganda. Still, they may be books of great historical value. If the latter, Trotzky has done a rash thing to brave the patriotic furor of the Russian people with truths they do not want to hear. He might well have remembered the calumny visited upon American historians who dared to hint that the British of the Revolutionary period were not all tyrants and rogues, and that George Washington may not have cut down the cherry tree...