Word: rumpusing
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Last week's rumpus made it more doubtful than ever that, if & when Motorman Ford does sign a U. A. W. contract, the signature next to his will be Homer Martin's. For the split between Laborman Martin and his former colleagues had become an engagement of major importance in auto labor's bitter civil...
Sculptors as a class have a minor but reasonable complaint against the world. It is not that their materials are expensive or that they work harder with their hands than other artists. What irks them is that it usually takes a stereotyped kind of public rumpus (see col. 1) to get them their share of attention and criticism. Last year 58 Manhattan sculptors organized a guild to do something about this, and last week they did it. On a vacant corner lot in midtown Manhattan, rented from the city for $5, they put on an outdoor exhibition of about...
...wealthy, imperious, chops-licking war horse, Gran Whiteoak is surrounded by an obsequious tribe worrying over who will inherit her money. Neither her fuddy-duddy children nor her horsy grandchildren are prepared to see it go to Finch, the family neurotic (Stephen Haggard), and they kick up quite a rumpus when it does...
...until a war chest of replacement buttons can be accumulated. The children discover what an angry futility war is. Director Daroy discovers the French way to end such a story: a chance remark about the weather turns an inter-village love feast into a neat and retroactive grown-up rumpus...
...National Training School for Girls was newsworthy. Last summer, a controversy between white and colored inmates as to whether Joe Louis was a better boxer than Jimmy Braddock started a free-for-all fight. Month ago, a fire alarm set off to increase the excitement of a school rumpus brought police to the scene...