Word: ructions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There has been rioting in the streets before. There have been tax quarrels and American Legion disturbances. But never yet in three centuries of Harvard have relations with Cambridge been in such an awful state of collapse. The current ruction has its background in the refusal of President Conant to give the city a hundred thousand dollar financial crutch. The action of the piece, however, is the unhappy participation of Harvard students in the memorial services at Weeks Bridge. As a result of this, there are signs of a storm...
Over three weeks ago a bitter ruction broke out in print among the elite of U. S. sportswriters when New York News Sports Editor Jimmy Powers reproached some of his fellows for an alleged alliance with sharp Promoter Mike Jacobs. New York Mirror Sports Editor Dan Parker countered that "Screwball Bowers" had "appropriated" word for word a Herbert Gorem sports story from the New York Sun, "used it ... in his syndicated out-of-town column...
...generation ago, Elinor Glyn was a name that caused many a ruction between the world and his wife. To the world, Author Glyn was hot stuff; to his wife, she was a Creature who wrote Vile Books. The post-War world can hardly remember what all the shouting was about, can just barely recollect that Elinor Glyn once wrote a notorious bestseller, Three Weeks, was credited with inventing "It," an outmoded synonym for the equally outmoded expression "sex appeal.'' Last week Elinor Glyn refreshed the U. S.'s memory about who and what she was. Her autobiography...
Finally misunderstanding over the payment of dues canoed ruction during the middle of the season...
...year Messrs. Johnson & Richberg worked shoulder-to-shoulder. Then began the long, loud ruction over NRA reorganization. As old friends will, the two men fell out violently. Counsel Richberg worked in closer and closer to the White House while General Johnson charged his staff with "disloyalty." Finally, Johnson angrily resigned and Richberg was upped to the nominal rank of "Assistant President" (TIME...