Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Amid mirthful uproar MM. Les Deputes recalled that the first wife of M. Bergery, an actress, soon divorced him. Later deflated Challenger Bergery excused himself thus: "I spoke in the heat of debate. Of course I had no intention of sending seconds to the Prime Minister...
Often enough in the past,, the annual General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. A. has been an unfortunate uproar concerned with such things as how a god can have a mortal father. Fundamentalists have blown and stamped, Modernists have scoffed and reasoned, Moderates have explained and pleaded. This year, the meeting in Tulsa, Okla., had a minimum of excursions and alarms. The Fundamentalists were apparently in sufficient majority to achieve victory in the things which lay nearest their hearts and Bibles; they could not, however, expect to work their wills upon every issue. They...
When they heard the horrible clatter that came from the ground floor, the schoolgirls shivered in their beds. When it continued, like the uproar that might herald the approach of some terrible invasion, they left their beds and crept to the head of the stairs. Below them, they saw a Roman scene. A lady somewhat their senior, in a nightgown, indiscreet and hilarious, bade them come down to a feast which she had made ready...
Noise became music last week, to the ears of Illinoisans who are proud to live in Joliet. Not merely noise but blatant hubbub, ghastly uproar and bomb explosions...
...reverberations of this uproar travelled, as the crow flies to the Hotel Bellevue and to City Hall. At the former, a speaker of the Boston Advertising Club calmed the city in general by allusions to the easy life among laundrymen and street cleaners on that side of the Charles. But for City Hall the darts were obviously meant and there they rattled impotently off the shield of Superintendent Crowley's indignation. "Our officers are the finest looking bunch of men in the State" he cried. "One shave a day is enough for them; and as for powdering their noses, laugh...