Word: tempests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afraid to reveal. Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson, of Arkansas, Senate minority leader and Democratic delegate to the London Conference, proposed to qualify the McKellar resolution by requesting the confidential papers only "if not incompatible with the public interest." Familiar with their contents, he declared: "The whole discussion is a tempest in a teapot. . . . They [the papers] are absolutely trivial and insignificant so far as they reflect any light on the Treaty. ... If they were ever published they would make us appear absolutely ridiculous and they might make some other people ridiculous for withholding them...
...Right, while Socialist Leader Leon Blum was shouting from the Tribune. "Make your charge openly!," he bellowed, and everyone seemed to shout at once. Rising from his seat near the centre of the chamber M. Edouard Herriot, onetime Prime Minister, everlasting Mayor of Lyons, finally stilled this particular tempest by assuring the Chamber that he (Radical-Socialist) had known M. Blum for 40 years and knew that the Socialist leader is not a "grafter...
STREET SCENE?Tempest in a brownstone front...
...terrace, gold walls against a blue curtain of sky, slightly resembles the island on which Shakespeare's less readily perplexed but equally worldly expatriates of The Tempest encountered magic after storm. Owned by a physicist named Stephen Field, it is the scene of a party given by his daughter Ann to six friends. They are: Pat Farley, with whom Ann is in love; Tom Ames and his wife, Hope, who loves their children; Norman Rose; Alice Kendall, who loves Rose; and Lily Malone, an actress whose acid witticisms to her companions are in the best manner of earlier Barry...
...This tempest has arisen not so much from the unfairness of the authorities as their continued failure to appreciate the temper of the press. Circumstances indicate that several faithful employees of the University were being harshly dealt with. Instead of exerting any effort to dispel these impressions, those in charge of press relations defended these actions with a Jovian silence. The public drew conclusions, not particularly clever, but convincingly damning and unpleasant. The result was that the god-like silence have the University very much the appearance of a thoroughly unholy Scrooge...