Word: ructions
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...hissed by women spectators. After her own appeal, Mrs. Peabody sat down in the front row to coach other Dry witnesses with "Stick to your statement," "Don't answer that," "Don't give any names." Her asides, discovered next day in the stenographic transcript, precipitated such a ruction within the committee that Chairman Graham had to adjourn the meeting for the members "to cool...
...sympathetic audience for Max's troubles, then as an increasingly unwilling provider of Max's women. Victor's secretary, Phyllis, is the first to go. For a while the three of them try living together in an idyllic but badly managed flat; then comes the inevitable ruction, and Victor is left with a disgruntled, slightly shocked cook and Phyllis's two children...
...four words are to be found in Webster's New International Dictionary. "Stramash," meaning "disturbance, ruction, broil," was applied to chronic political contentions in France. "Jimp," which has five meanings, among them (adjectively) "neat, spruce, trim," was applied to the leg of the original of Mark Twain's "Becky Thatcher." "Musnud" is the pillow or cushioned seat sat upon by an oriental potentate; was employed by TIME,-somewhat pedantically- to a university or seat-of-learning. "Kudos," of Greek derivation, means "praise, glory," was used in reference to honorary college degrees.-ED. Hibbard Flayed...
...career at Yale, reported abroad and at Washington for the Philadelphia Public Ledger. His abilities and connections obtained him a position in the U.S. State Department, which sent him to Paris attached to the Peace Commission. In 1919 he went on a special mission to Russia, causing a diplomatic ruction of international proportions when, upon his return, he divulged various Allied attitudes toward the Soviet regime. He left the State Department under something of a cloud. In 1921 he accepted the post of "managing editor" of the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation. Married, he abides in his native city of brotherly...
There followed rumpus, ruction and defiance. Mr. Haney refused to resign. While he was marshaling his explanations for so refusing, observers harked far back into the tangled muddle of Government shipping affairs...