Word: rumpusing
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...have read with indignation the article entitled "Rollins Rumpus.'' I have been a Rollins student last year and hasten to inform you that the opinion printed in this article voices the sentiment of, I believe, by actual count, 1/25th of the student body who call themselves liberalists and contribute to the college about nothing but destructive criticism and adolescent judgment-for instance, asking that one of their number be made one of the trustees was one of their brilliant ideas, a 19-year-old trustee! MARY ELIZABETH RANSOM...
...plump little donkey named Juanita kicked up a mighty rumpus in New England last week, brought pain and embarrassment to the American Red Cross. In the January Junior Red Cross News, monthly journal for children, was a story about a 10-year-old Spaniard named Rafael and a donkey he found abandoned at the foot of a cliff. Uncle Bastiano and Aunt Ana did not care for their nephew's asinine Juanita. On St. Anthony's Eve, Rafael begged a peseta on the road, set out to have Juanita bedecked and blessed next day in front...
...case against the American dates back three years to a Senate investigation of the Federal Power Commission. Insurgent Senators charged the executive secretary of the Commission, Frank E. Bonner, with partiality to power companies. Also under fire was the Commission's chief clerk, W. Frank Griffith. During the rumpus an elderly file clerk, Mrs. Minnie L. Ward, accused Chief Clerk Griffith of tampering her files. When he refused to leave her office she pelted him with eggs...
...Italians then moved off in a body down the hall, summoned by Il Duce who had already heard of the rumpus and had at once called up General Balbo from Rome. General Balbo immediately demanded either a formal apology from Socialist Renaudel, who again refused to apologize, or the ousting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union from the premises. It was thereupon ousted by Secretary General of the League of Nations Sir Eric Drummond...
...Argentina made a formal protest to Uruguay that the revolt was hatched on Uruguayan soil. When Dr. Adolfo Guemes and Dr. Jose Luis Cantillo, Radical Party politicians, reached Buenos Aires from Montevideo they were promptly arrested, soon released. Onetime President Hipolito Irigoyen, about whom all the rumpus centred, was coughing with bronchitis on Martin Garcia Island. Dictator Uriburu ordered the new Congress convoked Jan. 20, promised to return Argentina to constitutional government within 30 days. Leaders of the insurrection were announced as General Severo Toranzo, Lieut.-Colonel Gregorio Pomar and Jose Abalos, who was President Irigoyen's minister...