Word: rumpusing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reaching were last week's demands: 1) withdrawal of all foreign financial support and missionaries from Japan; 2) replacement of all foreign missionary executives by Japanese Christians (whose ears the Government can pin back without causing an international rumpus); 3) an amalgamation of all the Protestant sects in Japan. Significant was the proposed title for this new national body: the Genuine Japan Christian Church. Equally significant was the date which the Government set for the union: Oct. 17, the day on which Emperor Hirohito, himself considered a god by his subjects, dispatches a messenger to Ise to offer prayers...
Last week sturdy, baggy-trousered Mr. Wallace sat unobtrusively on the Convention platform, hearing his name booed and wondering what all the rumpus was about. With his grey-haired, brown-eyed wife sat Eleanor Roosevelt. Afterward Mrs. Roosevelt wrote: "I have always felt in him a certain shyness and that has kept him aloof from some Democrats, but now that he will be in close touch with so many of them I am sure they will soon find in him much to admire and love...
...saucer-eyed Diego Rivera brought down Rockefeller wrath on his mop-haired pate by giving a place of honor in his Rockefeller Center mural to Lenin. Last week a similar rumpus flurried up when the figure of Joseph Stalin was discovered in a WPA mural at Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field. Keeping Stalin company were two little-known Leftist aviators lined up alongside Byrd, Lindbergh, Earhart; a U. S. Navy hangar whose white star insignia had become the red star of the Soviets...
...Vote once more on Anti-Lynching, which has an early, preferred place on the House calendar and is bound to raise a rumpus in the Senate (where the bill died last year...
Grant Wood is an earthy, peaceable Iowan who manages to stir up many an artistic rumpus. His American Gothic (1930), portrait of a bleak, bald Iowa farmer and his tight-lipped daughter, at once became chief icon of the past decade's resurgent move to "paint American." His Daughters of Revolution (1932), three prim, grim, self-important matrons, scandalized the D. A. R. Lately Artist Wood has spent more time teaching and making lithographs than he has at his easel...