Word: rumpusing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President was criticized by certain sections of the press for his decision to change the White House by: 1. Adding a "rumpus room" in the basement...
...Eisenhower, who will quit his chief-of-staff duties on Feb. 15, acted as if he were beginning to enjoy the political rumpus. In Philadelphia last week to lay a wreath on Benjamin Franklin's grave, he was stopped by a man who proudly showed him a "Draft Eisenhower" button in his lapel. The General said: "Take that thing off and throw it away." But he wore his widest grin as he said...
...effort to settle finally the football ticket rumpus which has plagued the College this fall, the Student Council's representatives met yesterday with H.A.A., director William J. Bingham '16 and gained approval of a four-point program to help solve the date and cheering section seating squabble...
...work. But "Burnt Mountain Revival," by William Austin Emerson, nearly overshadows its lively picture of hell's-fire-and-brimstone religion with contrived hillbilly dialogue ("Hit's a rite purty night, ant it,' Homer said, laying the paddle across the boat. 'God, he don't like a lot of rumpus, else why's it so quite out here.") Similarly, Robert K. Bingham's "Faux Pas" proceeds from an ingenious episode idea to pretty dubious execution of it. The infiltrating touches of amateurism would not jar if the top-level did not loom so very near...
...near the center. Dirt increases in direct proportion to distance from the Kremlin. Not even last week's ceremonial ablutions could douse Moscow's habitual smell-a musty and ageless compound of wet plaster, cabbage and inadequately dressed furs. Not even last week's hectic carnival rumpus could exaggerate the Muscovites' devotion to their white-walled, golden-headed city...