Word: hullabaloos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bishop Gallagher: "In talking with prelates who asked what all the hullabaloo was about, I gave them a pretty picture of all that Father Coughlin was doing. But some objected, There is a spot on your picture. He called the President a liar.' Then I would tell them, 'We have erased that blemish.' I wiped that slate clean before I sailed for Italy. I urged him not to use expressions such as calling the President a 'liar,' because it failed to show respect for an office which deserves _______ respect. After I had discussed this with...
...platform was hastily sent to Washington by plane to be examined at the White House. By evening it was back, amended. The platform committee approved it, a stenographer retyped it, the Convention adopted it with a conglomerate shout. If politics were not so largely composed of headlines and hullabaloo, President Roosevelt could have issued it direct from the White House over his own signature...
...loudly gunning for "stool pigeons of King George" eight years ago, the best he could bring down was William Andrew Me Andrew, the city's white-bearded school superintendent whom Mayor William Dever had imported from New York. "Big Bill" flung abuse at Superintendent McAndrew, made a great hullabaloo about "pro-British" history textbooks, finally got himself elected Mayor. Superintendent McAndrew watched the Thompson antics with fine disdain, stood a farcical trial for insubordination, finally retired to East Setauket, N. Y. There he edits the "Educational Review" in School & Society...
Plays, Paintings, Preserves. The substantial background behind all this hullabaloo was a vast miscellany of activities without which a Fair would not be a Fair. There were countless lectures by Iowa professors, social workers, Farm Bureau Federation executives on interior decoration, weaving, child psychology, farm plumbing, "Childhood Then & Now," "The Farm Woman A World Citizen." And on shelf after shelf, through aisle after aisle were stacked the products that Iowa's women had wrought from their gardens, cook stoves and work baskets. Nine hundred prizes were offered for twelve kinds of bread and rolls, 15 kinds of layer cake...
...fateful December of 1776, in Williamsburg, Revolutionary capital of Virginia, five students of substance at the College of William & Mary were sufficiently bored with the patriotic hullabaloo to spend their time founding the world's first Greek Letter fraternity. Named Phi Beta Kappa,* it was replete with key, motto, initiation rites and a secret salute. So secret was its salute that the founders, who had described it in their minutes, hastily smudged out the last part of the description, when Lord Cornwallis' troops began to plunder Williamsburg...