Word: rumpusing
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...rumpus in Czechoslovakia arose entirely from "Germans" who in 1914 were subjects not of the German Kaiser but of the Austrian Kaiser-that is they are Austrians who find themselves and their old homes now in the new state of Czechoslovakia. From the Sudetes Mountains many of them take the name of Sudetendeutsch, and leader of the Sudetendeutsch Partei is pudgy but strenuous Herr Konrad Henlein. He was embarrassed recently by the arrest of his chief henchman, Hans Henrich Rutha, and 16 young men as homosexuals...
Last week the Nicaraguan Government put out a postage stamp depicting "the official map of Nicaragua." Honduras promptly demanded the stamp's suppression. Nicaragua refused and the rumpus began. Many Nicaraguan residents of Honduras were returned home by their legation in Tegucigalpa; orators of both countries broadcast bitter speeches; Honduran students, learning that Nicaraguan firebrands were urging war, declared themselves ready to fight back, thundered in a manifesto that "to die for the Fatherland is to open the doors of immortality...
This little note from the President, addressed to Mr. Garner, was read to the Senate last week. A few minutes later that body adjourned, ending a session which will be remembered in history less for what it accomplished than for a futile six-month rumpus over the Supreme Court...
...however, hard to see," he continued, "how under the terms of the agreement Italy could get any Spanish islands in the Mediterranean. Furthermore, from the rumpus Spain has been raising for the past 200 years about the English at Gibralter, I don't think it likely that she would give Italy any islands...
...notice that in the new League building had been hung a magnificent antique tapestry depicting Emperor Charles V driving the Turkish barbarians in confusion from Vienna in the year 1529. When through his thick-lensed spectacles Dr. Aras at last saw this he raised a shrill rumpus and the League, as a conciliatory gesture to Dictator Mustafa Kamal Atatürk, hastily removed the tapestry...