Word: storms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...universal storm of protest as revealed in now extant newspapers seems to show how deeply this fatal restriction of the chief incentive of American business was resented, and how widespread was the resultant depression. None, when faced with such evidence, can deny the probability that this psychological catastrophe may have broken the spirit of an emotional people, and left them defenceless against material disaster; but much hard work remains to be done after the manner of these brilliant discoveries before all the mists of the past are blown away, and the aboriginal American is seen and understood by the modern...
...speaker could go no farther. A storm of applause swept the banquet hall. Someone proposed a "regular I. C. S. for Sims, fellows, and make it good." In the enthusiasm of the moment, I felt my resolution born anew. It was not too late! I would start now, and I would succeed! Some day I too would come home, put my dinner pall on the table, and say. "Little woman, don't worry about that new dress--I'm making real money...
...Never before in the history of Yale has such a group succeeded in dictating a faculty appointment after the Corporation had ruled against it. . . . Dr. Angell bowed to the storm. Mr. Woolley was appointed for another year, and the decision postponed until 1926, when Mr. Baker will have had a chance to show his powers, the passions of the moment will be cooled to the usual apathy of the non-professional graduate, and Mr. Woolley may be dropped quietly and this time efficiently...
...have become interested in the growing craze for burlesque, a craze which took New York by storm. Burlesque, under this popularity, is being improved in theatrical and moral quality. The greatest rage is the negro burlesque...
...storm was brewing in Japan and, as its result, the fall of the Coalition Government of Viscount Kato was prophesied...