Word: rumpuses
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...friends with his neighbor, an English professor from Temple University. "I used to think," says he, "that we businessmen were on one side-the really important one-and there on the other side were the intellectuals like the professor. Now, you should hear the talks we have in my rumpus room...
...whispers grew louder in Manhattan. Godfrey was reported to have said that he was giving up smoking. Alternatively, he was said to have switched from Chesterfields to a pipe. Some pundits sagely viewed the incident as a sign of Godfrey's decline: "Coming after the LaRosa rumpus, it's another blow at Godfrey's prestige." Godfrey was rumored to be leaving CBS for NBC. to be retiring from radio & TV, to be thinking of entering 1) the Government or 2) a monastery...
...minor film comedy, The Moon Is Blue has already raised a major censorship rumpus. On the ground that its dialogue is too blue, the Roman Catholic Legion of Decency (which gave the play a "B" or "unobjectionable for adults" rating) has given the movie a "C" or "condemned" rating. Last week New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman, in a letter to pastors of churches in his archdiocese, denounced the picture as "an occasion of sin" and as violating "standards of morality and decency." Cardinal Spellman urged Catholics to boycott it when it opens at two Manhattan theaters on July...
Uniformed police cleared the way for ticketholders, and plain-clothes men kept their eyes peeled, but by concert time the big hall had filled up quietly to its 2,700 capacity. With the hall's doors closed against sounds of street rumpus, burly, 57-year-old Walter Gieseking strode onstage. The crowd let out an encouraging whoop, clapped for half a minute. A few listeners rose to show their respect...
...even before he filed his suit Green raised such a rumpus that Skouras agreed to his demand for five new men on the ten-man 20th Century board to represent minority interests," provided that they were well-known businessmen. When Green presented a slate of names, Skouras said he had never heard of them, refused to seat them. Green also tried to make a deal with Zanuck, promising him the presidency if he would help to oust Skouras. Zanuck turned him down, said the suit could only be actuated by a desire of reprisal . . ." So Green squared...