Word: hue
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...happened that Signor Matteotti had with him, when last seen, documents he intended to use in a speech against the Government. A hue and cry was raised by the people and by the Opposition press against the Minister and against the Government. It was hinted that Deputy Matteotti had been murdered at the instigation of certain members of Mussolini's Cabinet. Benito Mussolini, pale but confident, made the following statement to the Chamber...
...this estimate be correct, M. Poincaré's new bloc (composed of Republicans of varying hue) is safe; for what every lazy French voter wants is security, religious peace, reparations, administrative reform and economy, and those things are what the Premier is striving to give them...
...other hand there are values inherent in the present system which are too good to lose, and of these perhaps the most important is the multifarious nature of college interests and activities. Contrary to the general hue and cry, there are not too many extra curriculum activities at present: if anything there are not enough. To give the student nothing to do with his time except to forage for knowledge when and where he will is productive in the long run only of indolence or dilettantism or pedantry. The ideal college must combine with the much-desired individualistic emphasis...
...want no hue and cry, no mingling of innocent and guilty in un thinking condemnation...
...Internationale to the Workers' Party of America. Thereupon certain Senators charged that there was no connection between the Third Internationale and the Soviet Government, and the bearded leader of the Senate Republicans promised to undertake an investigation. Thereupon other whiskered gentry in far off Russia took up the hue with shouts of "forgery." Thus was the battle of the beavers begun...