Word: rumpuses
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...Companionate Marriage") Lindsey received a court scolding in Manhattan last week for causing a rumpus in Bishop William Thomas Manning's cathedral (TIME, Dec. 15). Bishop Manning refused to prosecute. So subsided the affair, except for a limerick composed by Protestant Episcopal clergymen who dislike Bishop Manning. The limerick...
...week's antitariff manifesto, observers noticed that it had been signed by directors of such paramount British banks as Lloyds, Westminster and Midland, then recalled with a start that other directors of these very same firms signed the pro-tariff "Banker's Manifesto" which created such a rumpus just two months ago (TIME, July 14). Inescapable conclusion: Britain's bankers, famed as the most clannish in the world, have found an issue which splits like an axe even their own offices...
...Brooks. Until the end of the year Dean Walter Williams of the School of Journalism will be acting president, full-fledged president thereafter.† The Board wished it to be thoroughly understood that President Brooks's removal was not the outcome of last spring's "sex questionnaire" rumpus (TIME, March...
...power companies, including the Niagara Company's $30,000,000. Political pressure, he claimed, was brought to bear on the then Commissioners-Dwight Filley Davis (War), Hubert Work (Interior), William Jardine. (Agriculture)-who recalled the report and deleted the samples of "power padding" lest they "cause a rumpus" by the companies...
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...