Word: rumpus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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McLean v. de Ligne. Two men were involved in the other rumpus of the week. The Belgian Embassy, an ornate white stone mansion at 18th street and Massachusetts avenue, is now occupied by His Highness Prince Albert de Ligne. One morning last month His Highness was shocked, enraged, at the sight of a splurgy front-page story in the Washington Post in which his recall to Belgium was "definitely forecast." The newspaper said...
...more turbulent or disheartening rumpus has been known in recent artistic history than that which has frustrated the attempts of Southern interests to carve an everlasting memorial to the Confederacy's heroes, Lee, Jackson, Davis and their men, on the awesome bluff of Stone Mountain, Ga. The dismissal of famed and fiery Sculptor Gutzon Borglum and the engaging of Sculptor Henry Augustus Lukeman ushered in a period of vacillation and chaotic nagging which left the project at a virtual standstill (TIME...
Through a month of plenary sessions this seating was not changed. When Bolivia quarreled with Paraguay, mother, father and the whole family proceeded to squelch them both (see below). But even that rumpus did not spoil the party, did not prevent the delegates from negotiation and drafting two vital Peace Pacts...
Smartest Parisians of the ċercle du Ritz Bar were titillated and intrigued, last week, by news from Manhattan that General and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt seemed finally reconciled not only with their lanky ex-publisher son Cornelius Jr., but also with their cherub-faced and rumpus-raising nephew Erskine Gwynne...
...they were not awarded jobs, raged at this requirement. They caused the New York Daily News to print their pictures with stories damning Earl Carroll, quoting George White, "Ziggy" and such showmen as being shocked by Earl Carroll's nude parade. The effort to start another Earl Carroll rumpus failed; District Attorney Joab H. Banton pointed out that even if the chorines were telling the truth, Earl Carroll had committed no crime...