Word: rumpusing
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...Ohio Bar Association held its annual meeting, invited, among other dignitaries, Harry M. Daugherty, one-time (from 1921 until the oil rumpus) Attorney General. He was obliged to decline, but wrote instead a long letter which since has been given circulation among his friends. Extracts...
...Desert Flower. Out of this gold-rush rumpus and all the dusty sentimentality of love in the desert, they have made an ice-cream-cone comedy that is as surprising as it is entertaining. The dance-hall den becomes a place of sweet lullabies and softened hearts. The dance-hall girls spread sunshine instead of sin. Colleen Moore is the girl in question, and never was her piquant presence more invigorating. She picks up a tramp, stiffens up his backbone, discovers he is a millionaire's son from the East...
...civic rumpus broke out in Berlin over renaming a street after the late President Friedrich Ebert. The Republicans, particularly the Socialists, want the Budapesterstrasse called Friedrich Ebertstrasse. The Budapesterstrasse runs from the Brandenburg Gate along the back of the palace gardens facing on the Wilhelmstrasse where the Foreign Office is situate. The Monarchists think this is too much honor for the saddlemaker President and a suggestion was made that a street in the Berlin suburb of Treptow, where Ebert used to live, be renamed after...
Meanwhile, in the Senate, the treaty over the Isle of Pines near Cuba-a treaty submitted to the Senate by John Hay, Secretary of State to President Roosevelt, over 20 years ago, continued to produce an unprofitable rumpus. The island was not specifically mentioned in the post-war treaty with Spain at the end of the last century. Various real estate companies sold much land on the island to Americans, with the under-standing that it was U. S. property. The State Department has never taken this view, holding-and in this supported by the Supreme Court-that the island...
General Maurice Sarrail, who commanded the Third Army in France during the War, has many friends; these friends started a verbal rumpus to have him made a Marshal of France. The friends of General Michel de Castelnau, also numerous, heard the faint hubbub of Sarrailites and started a campaign to have their hero made a Marshal of France. When Generals Fayolle and Franchet d'Esperey were given the batons of a marshal, General de Castelnau was one of the disappointed Generals. His friends declared that the authorities had slighted him be cause of his well-known Royalist sympathies...