Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...until old enough (18) to become a sculptor in the art school at Breslau. He interested himself in the natural sciences and sociology, married wealth and built up a reputation as a dramatist upon plays expressing his revolt against social and artistic conditions in a milito-capitalistic state. The uproar caused by his sententious eloquence paralleled Corneille's presentation of Le Cid in 17th Century Paris, and drew such attention that in 1905 Oxford hailed him as "Doctor" and in 1912 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. More recently he remarried and built a home amid the towering...
...staying at the Hotel Bellevue. When shortly after two o'clock, the Dartmouth players left Hanover in automobiles yesterday, two thousand students jammed the sidewalks and sent "Wah-Hoo-Wah's" booming across the town, while the band sent the strains of "The Backs Go Tearing By" through the uproar...
This angered sexagenarian, one-eyed Deputy Picot. He jumped out of his place, rushed up the steps of the tribunal, attempted to drag Doriot to the floor. In a moment the Chamber was in an uproar. Deputies and ushers rushed toward the struggling men. M. Franklin-Bouillon, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, ran full tilt into Communist Deputy Bourlois, who struck him a resounding punch in the face. Staggered, M. Bouillon stepped back a pace, blood dripping from his nose, and in a second more he closed with the Communist and they rolled to the floor...
...Following the uproar of Parliament over the propriety of Cabinet Ministers (Lord Birkenhead, in particular) writing articles for the press, Premier Stanley Baldwin announced in the House that he had spoken about the matter to Lord Birkenhead, who promised to cease his interesting journalistic efforts, except for a monthly magazine to which he was under contract to write a number of historical papers. "The rule may, therefore, be taken as reëstablished,"* observed the Premier, "that members during their term of office will not contribute to journalism...
...Haven, Conn., June 2.--"It was an ordinary 'Bottle Night' for the Freshmen," said Dean Walden of the Yale class of 1928 in commenting on the informal Freshman celebration Sunday. "The uproar that the class of 1928 made Saturday night has been grossly exaggerated in some of the printed stories. They threw some things from their windows, largely glass and crockery, but the damage was slight. Their worst disorder was to start a bonfire. We of Yale live in a city and bonfires should not be started...