Word: rumpuses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seat in the balcony. Once they got inside there wasn't anybody in sight so they majestically strode into the boxes. The smallest one of the bunch was 6 feet, 3 1-2 inches, weighing 185 pounds, and the poor little usher who came to investigate the rumpus quailed before the towering height of the giants. So they stayed right where they were--in the boxes for forty cents...
...system, or how many were really unbalanced. In a formal report to the Board of Education he declared that there were "no teachers in the system who are 'insane' in the sense in which the layman understands this word." In fact, said he, the whole rumpus was the fault of a bungling newshawk who thought he meant maniacs when he said some teachers were manic-depressives. And he had not said that a teacher twisted a chair-leg in a boy's eye. She had merely twisted it near...
Fortnight earlier Erskine Caldwell, Georgia-born author, who wrote Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre, novels dealing with the mudsills of Georgia's white society, started the rumpus by writing an article for the Communist New Masses, relating much the same facts, charging that a reign of terror for Negroes was afoot, and adding...
...sports-page-&-barroom tempest over Yale's coaching staff subsided for a while. Last week the Yale Board of Athletic Control announced the 1934 staff: Head Coach Raymond W. ("Ducky") Pond, Assistants Earle ("Greasy") Neale, Denny Myers and Ivan Williamson. It could hardly have caused more rumpus if they had chosen Yale's President Angell as coach and three ditchdiggers as assistants. "Ducky" Pond, like his predecessors, is a Yale graduate (1925). He has no experience as a varsity coach. The New York alumni of Yale, who had waged a furious fight to end Yale's policy...
First great rumpus on the newspaper code was over Freedom of the Press. Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick of the Chicago Tribune last autumn was loudest in his objections to a code which did not redefine the constitutional rights of newspapers to say what they please. Could they, for example, be licensed out of business by a government disgruntled with their views? In December General Johnson stopped trying to reassure newspaper publishers that the code was not meant to be a gag by inserting a specific clause to the effect that the government got no censoring rights...