Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps it was the intuition of Adolf Hitler which let this windy provocation pass, and in Rome the intuition of Benito Mussolini was also working overtime, verbal postures of British electioneers, the pained uproar of Continental editors, and the general Homeric hubbub of last week were vastly flattering to the British voter, made him glow with a feeling that his Government, to create such a stir, must indeed deserve many a ballot. Electioneerings...
...admitted as members of the New York Athletic Club, of which he is a member?" Snarled Mr. Mahoney: "I have nothing to do with New York Athletic Club policies. General Sherrill is also a member. I would like to know what he thinks of it." Any chance that the uproar might degenerate into a locker-room squabble between Mr. Sherrill and Mr. Mahoney was speedily destroyed by the Secretary of the Committee on Fair Play in Sports, William B. Chamberlain. Said he: "The issue is not Jewry against Germany but fair play...
...started with loud charges by Tree-Surgeon-Governor Davey that 13 members of the squad had State jobs (TIME, Oct. 21). Pleased by the uproar, officials at Ohio State admitted the fact, while Ohio State publicists ballyhooed the team's new name, ''Scarlet Scourge," announced that requests for Ohio State's football schedule had been received from London, Paris, Alaska, Bombay and Addis Ababa. In its second game, against Drake, Ohio State made a season's record for the number of players used (47) as well as the number of points scored...
...Ward, chairman of the U. S. Davis Cup Committee, urging Frankie Parker not to give up school. Said Committeeman Ward: "It seems to me that a good education will be of benefit to you throughout life. . . ." It reached a climax with Mercer Beasley's sagest contribution to the uproar: "Frankie's got a swelled head. I tried to make him use the circle swingback but he wouldn't listen to me. . . ." It approached solution when it became Frankie Parker's turn to serve again and he pompously announced: "I'm going to resume my studies...
...uproar about Mrs. Helen Wills Moody's performance at Wimbledon two months ago, a phenomenally large amount of misplaced attention was devoted to the fact that she won her first U. S. Women's Singles Championship in 1923. Last week at the Interlachen Country Club near Minneapolis, sportswriters failed to get similarly excited about a sportswoman whose apparent immunity to the effects of time surpasses Mrs. Moody's. She was Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare, who won the Women's Golf Championship of the U. S. for the first time in 1922 and won it last week...