Word: hornets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Presbyterians) sought under the leadership of shrewd Conservative Premier George Howard Ferguson to return enough representatives under his banner to permit him to secure repeal of the 0. T. A. and substitute a Government-controlled liquor rationing system. During the campaign Premier Ferguson raised a feminine hornet's nest about his ears by declaring: "Twenty-five years ago a girl would hardly speak to a man who carried a flask, but now a man without a flask is a man without a girl...
...excessive profits." In court the Company voluntarily agreed: 1) to pay back $600,000; 2) to cancel the rest of its contract; 3) to forfeit its right to do business in Texas. The astounding implications of this action on the part of the company stirred up a hornet's nest around Governess Ferguson and her husband "Jim." It was understood that Jim had picked the members of the Highway Commission, and he was known to have attended their meetings. So it was felt he should share the blame with them. Last week, with talk of impeachment...
With an unexpectedness that was as unnerving as a thunderclap he twisted the tail of Senor Quinones' butterfly resolution into a hornet's sting; proposed an amendment that would give the League power to make "regional compacts" binding on the whole world, with a force as rigid as that once contemplated in drawing up the Protocol...
Premier Herriot's battle with the Catholic Church has brought a hornet's nest about his ears, and may make his position as Premier even more precarious. The strike of school children in Alsace-Lorraino was merely a local skirmish in the nation-wide dissention, but it was the spark which set off the fiery Chamber of Deputies into fist-fight over Herriot's policy. Both sides have lined up for a fight to the finish on the question of what position the Church shall assume in French education...
...glad that it wasn't a hornet...