Word: rumpusing
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...Boston American: "Just what Harvard intends to do in a football way always seems to stir up a big rumpus. After all, whatever Harvard does, football will still be the Greatest game in the world...
Miss Kennedy is permitted to become slightly intoxicated in the second act in hilarious memory of her famous scene in Fair and Warmer. It is regrettable that the resemblance to that extraordinary rumpus stops short at that. Some day someone will write another Fair and Warmer for Miss Kennedy and then the whole city will turn out with trumpets...
After all this rumpus had proceeded unchecked for several days, General Charteris at length spoke. To reporters who crowded round him as he was about to set sail for Glasgow, aboard the liner Transylvania, he delivered himself warmly as follows: "Mv speech was made at a private dinner at which the toastmaster began his remarks with the statement that no reporters were present. ... It was not necessary for us to spread false propaganda, as sufficient false propaganda was being spread from other sources to offset any which was spread for a good purpose . . . My whole idea in speaking...
While New York City was making a great rumpus over the choice of its candidates for Mayor, Cleveland made not half the fuss over the actual choice of its mayor. For the choice of the Cleveland mayor lay not with the people but with the city council. One mayor, Clayton C. Townes, resigned, and another, John D. Marshall, was promptly elected by the council. But the office of mayor in Cleveland is not panoplied and surrounded with the halo of office, for the city is governed by a city manager, at present able, active William R. Hopkins...
There followed rumpus, ruction and defiance. Mr. Haney refused to resign. While he was marshaling his explanations for so refusing, observers harked far back into the tangled muddle of Government shipping affairs...