Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jams, that these daring practices, familiar to preceding generations of lumberjacks, are scorned by contemporaries as unsophisticated generosity to their employers. He had to return to Hollywood to recruit a crew of fake lumberjacks with enough courage to do what real lumberjacks are supposed to do. Included in the uproar concerning production of Come and Get It was the story which billed Actress Andrea Leeds as Hollywood's "kiss champion'' after she had spent more than nine hours kissing three young actors to test their ability to play the role of her fiancé in the film...
...thick-waisted daughter of a strict Bronx family, stayed up with the family until around midnight. Early next morning, looking slimmer and paler than she had for some months, Elizabeth Smith took the family dog for a customary walk. Later that Saturday the Smith neighborhood was in an uproar of police car sirens, screeching housewives, giggling boys and girls. In the airshaft of the tenement next door to the Smiths', a newborn baby boy had been found dead, apparently dropped from the roof. Easter Sunday, detectives asked childish Elizabeth Smith if the dead child were hers. "Yes." said...
...Tunis' second bid for publicity in six months, his first being the book "Was College Worth While," which caused a considerable uproar last summer, the current article "More Pay for College Football stars" claims that Harvard, along with others, subsidized teams to make its athletic corporations pay. His only concession to the "semipros" is that for the most part even the hired football players have to pass their examinations and take a degree...
Meantime Democrats were in uproar. They begged Republican Senator Norris, a stanch New Dealer who campaigned for Smith in 1928, for Roosevelt in 1932, to accept their nomination. When he refused, State Chairman James C. Quigley confidently filed for the nomination, announced that after winning it he would withdraw any time Senator Norris asked him to. Dazed and dejected were Democratic regulars when they counted their primary votes, discovered that a political cuckoo named Terry Carpenter had thrust himself into their nest with the combined support of Townsendites, Coughlinites, Share-Our-Wealthers and Germans grateful for a speech he once...
...Gorgeous Hussy (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is Peggy O'Neale, Washington, D. C. innkeeper's daughter, whose second marriage, to President Andrew Jackson's Secretary of War John Eaton, caused an uproar in Washington society unrivaled until the appearance of Mrs. Dolly Gann in 1929. Peggy O'Neale's first marriage was to a Navy purser named John B. Timberlake, who committed suicide. The uproar started when the wives of other Cabinet members and Mrs. John C. Calhoun, wife of the Vice President, refused to receive her because gossip said she had been Secretary baton...