Word: rumpusing
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...owner of a movie house in Ozone Park, Long Island. These latter cases bear striking symptomatic similarities. Both the Regents and the theatre owner succumbed before outraged minority opposition to the showing of certain motion pictures. "The Miracle," a movie which few people would have seen if such a rumpus had not been raised about it, was banned by the Regents. The Ozone Park theatre owner did not show "The Bicycle Thief" after local Knights of Columbus marched on the theater and threatened to picket unless the offending picture were withdrawn. The theatre owner fell ill with that same disease...
Songwriter Palmer, 50, whose last song was this spring's You Dreamer You, had gotten used to thinking of his Silver Dollar as a rumpus-room standard, but no bestseller. Says he: "I am as surprised as anyone...
...College, Mich., likes to call his administration "a period of sanitation." Called in two years ago to put Olivet back on its financial feet, he determined to rid the campus of its reputation for leftist-pacifist leanings (TIME, Jan. 24, 1949). In doing so, he raised a bigger academic rumpus than most presidents could raise in a lifetime...
Like the luscious nude over the barroom mirror, or Mother Goose in the nursery, the bright prints of pink-coated foxhunters have become the standard pictures for thousands of U.S. libraries, dens and rumpus rooms. Richard Gump, the iconoclastic, 44-year-old president of Gump's famed art store in San Francisco, thinks that's a shame. "Why not baseball or football pictures?" he asks. "Those frozen hunting prints have become purely functional, like door knobs. Pictures mean nothing unless they make sense to the man who looks at them...
Last week Gump's put 250 sporting prints, drawings, sculptures and paintings on exhibition to prove that rumpus-room art can make sense to contemporary U.S. citizens. The show went back three centuries, included an engraving of the Duke of York (later King James II) playing tennis. There were paintings and prints of boxing, football, baseball, hockey, skiing and golf-and an early 19th Century engraving, Playing at Bomble Puppy...