Word: rumpuses
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...Georgio de Chirico who fathered surrealism before World War I. But the Prophet soon lost the Faith, and his Paris disciples excommunicated him in 1926; even if he still lived, they said, Chirico was dead. Last week the old outlaw of the cult raised a rumpus...
...second day out. It works, if combined with other methods. Nothing else will. I've got down to about one licking a day now and hope soon to dispense with them altogether. I see signs of progress and even civilization. So far the beatings have caused no rumpus; in fact, the town is delighted...
...rumpus over the British credit made the State Department discourage other large-scale borrowers. Paris papers predicted that France's special "good will" emissary, Leon Blum, expected in the U.S. in mid-February, would ask for $2.5 billion. His pleas might fall on near-deaf ears, even if he should argue that only U.S. aid to France would check the westward tide of Communism. Other prospective borrowers were biding their time, waiting to see what Congress would do with the British loan...
...after the unsoldierly hubbub of homesick G.I.s had reached a stage of near-mutiny (TIME, Jan. 21), Chief of Staff Eisenhower had forbidden any more soldiers' demonstrations on pain of court-martial. Now he told why he had put the brakes on demobilization and thus touched off the rumpus...
Take It Easy. Her legend is prodigious. Once she went to Agua Caliente with Columnist Louella Parsons and Husband Docky Martin. In the gents' room of a Caliente tavern, Docky became involved with several brawling Mexicans. Miss Parsons, hearing the rumpus, asked Florabel what to do. "Hell," shouted Florabel, "rescue the poor bastard!" Forthwith, she dived into the room, grabbed Docky by the arm and hauled...