Word: tempester
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This is the tempest long foretold...
Ready-Made Answer. Next he read from two New York Herald Tribune editorials. They discussed "the mixture of unauthenticated 'news,' rumor, guesswork and innuendo which has exploded a teapot tempest around . . . General Marshall." They labeled such speculative reporting obstructionism and "whispering gallery journalism...
Called in by the Senate Judiciary Committee to tell these stories, to soothe a teapot tempest, were Censor Byron Price, Attorney General Francis Biddle, FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover, Captain Ellis M. Zacharias of the Navy Intelligence, Brigadier General Hayes A. Kroner of the Army Intelligence...
Alaska's Governor Ernest H. Gruening started the tempest. Choking with indignation, he had appeared before the Committee to protest against a bill to authorize mail censorship between the U.S. and territories. For a year, he sputtered, censors' had been prying into mail to Alaska. Private letters were passed around for the censors' amusement. Personal items were scissored, put on mimeographed sheets, circulated to British and U.S. officials...
...Helen Westley), 63, veteran character actress; in Middlebush, NJ. Dour-faced, fire-eyed and testy-tongued, she specialized in playing disreputable old wrecks. She was one of the founders of the Theatre Guild. She was the fifth famed character actress to die in recent weeks (the others: Dame Marie Tempest, May Robson, Edna May Oliver, Laura Hope Crews...