Word: rumpusing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jews, the British, and Arab moderates. He has not always been so quiet. As the editor of the college annual at the University of Cincinnati, he once raised such a commotion when a dean tried to censor him that the university's president was replaced during the resulting rumpus. As the young rabbi of a Reform Temple in Brooklyn, he led a funeral procession up Manhattan's Fifth Avenue to mourn pogroms in Czarist Russia. His fashionable congregation objected, and Magnes resigned. During World War I he became an ardent pacifist, was booed and hissed by patriotic gatherings...
...meetings, plots and stratagems. Mayor Norton King plastered the town with placards: "Keep calm and collected for a few days until we can settle this among ourselves." Old Mrs. Jennie Lazenby said she hadn't seen so much excitement since the lumbering days. The cause of all the rumpus was the Rev. Cecil Scott...
This declaration seemed to signal a truce in the bitter left-ring rumpus for the time being and enables the CIO to offer a solid front against industry in the wage battles of this winter...
...since the U.S. has no reason to conceal figures on its foreign garrisons, U.S. opposition to partial disclosure may have been a blunder. Scarcely had the Security Council rumpus subsided when the figures were revealed by the New York Times's military analyst Hanson W. Baldwin. One interesting point: in China (wildly decried by Russia and her friends as a prey to U.S. imperialism), the U.S. maintains only 29,000 troops, while Russia has 75,000 in China's northern provinces...
...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...