Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exploitation of popular susceptibility to the obvious double entendre. He realizes that, like money, sex may not be everything, but it's hard to got along without. His take is simple and though unevenly paced it has its moments. A quiet, solid little tourists home is thrown into an uproar of delicious confusion when the unexpected guest sweeps in the alluring form of Carole Arden, the luscious temptress of the silver screen. Miss Arden seems to be on a tour of personal appearances which has been interrupted by the breakdown of her ivory Issota...
...represent the Continents, floated into the air. The Olympic bell rang. All the church bells of Garmisch tinkled in response. A cannon, lugged into the arena by oxen, boomed. The bands played the Olympic hymn. The crowd cheered, clapped, yelped "Heils" that echoed down from the mountains. When the uproar began to die down, German Skier Willi Bogner scrambled up the steps of a rostrum decked with fir boughs, raised his right arm in Olympic salute, touched the flag of the German delegation with his left hand and recited the Olympic oath: "We swear that we will take part...
Investigation threw the officials of the boat into an uproar. There were veiled threats regarding the throwing of college boys into the brig and taking them back to New York. Passengers snickered. Finally, however, the new flag was retrieved and revealed to one and all for what it was, the most important half of a pair of striped and vividly coloured pajamas that have adorned the closet and person of a Dunster Senior for lo these many months...
Controversies. Standard subject for gloomy collegiate editorializing for the past ten years has been "overemphasis" of football. This autumn it has received practically no attention. Likewise diminishing is the uproar about the pay that goes, directly or indirectly, to many football players at most U. S. colleges. When Tree-Surgeon Governor Davey of Ohio charged that 13 members of the State University football squad had government jobs, Ohio State officials were surprised only by the Governor's indignation (TIME, Oct. 21). Last week Ohio State undergraduates threatened to throw fruit at Governor Davey if he attended the Notre Dame...
...score; the U. S. tug-of-war team withdrew because British tuggers appeared in "monstrous boots"; Italian spectators were enraged when, after Marathoner Pietri Dorando had been dragged across the finish line, the race was awarded to the U. S.'s Johnny Hayes. In 1912, in Stockholm, the uproar concerned Jim Thorpe who was disqualified after winning the pentathlon and decathlon. In 1920, the U. S. team revolted at Antwerp because they disliked their food and living in an empty schoolhouse. In 1924, in Paris, a Frenchman was accused of biting an Englishman. In 1928, in Amsterdam, the French...