Word: tempest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this issue "cut through religious, political and even family lines," but it sure raised a tempest...
...wartime series by one "Colonel Thomas Rainsboro," attacking Churchill's military strategy, stirred the greatest tempest in the Tribune's decade. It was widely attributed to Field Marshal Wavell, but was probably written by cocky, brilliant Frank Owen, like Foot a onetime Beaverbrook boy and now acting editor of the Daily Mail...
Elliott Roosevelt's conversation was getting in the papers again and making people unhappy, but the latest tempest was a baffler. In Warsaw, reporters fought to see him to check up on something he had been heard to say. They finally won an audience. Declared Elliott: he had positively not given an interview. He had just made a conversational remark. What it was all about: he had said that he "liked Poland very much...
...Manhattan last week greeted its first large-scale repertory theater since Eva Le Gallienne's famed enterprise folded in 1933. This time Miss Le Gallienne was again a leading spirit, but in partnership with Director Margaret Webster (Hamlet, Othello) and Producer Cheryl Craw ford (Porgy and Bess, The Tempest). It had taken the three of them two years to raise almost $300,000 from 144 stockholders (they resisted Hollywood) and to gather a permanent company, including Walter Hampden, Victor Jory, Ernest Truex and Actress Le Gallienne herself...
...Cuttyhunk's case: the island was discovered in 1602 by Englishman Bartholomew" Gosnold. Shakespeare wrote The Tempest in 1611. Both Shakespeare and Gosnold had the same patron: the Earl of Southampton. Cuttyhunkers insist that Shakespeare's account of the shipwreck isle tallied with Gosnold's description of Cuttyhunk. Most Shakespeare authorities think he wrote about Bermuda...