Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Orleans was thrown into uproar. With banks closed, Saturday night payrolls were not met. Many Negro laborers, living hand-to-mouth, could not buy food. Department stores flatly refused to cash checks. Until news of the holiday-making conference leaked out, newspaper offices were swamped with inquiries from mystified subscribers wanting to know what it was all about...
...turning back toward him. Only last fortnight Wilhelm II's fourth son, Prince August ("Auwi") Wilhelm, was commanded by his father to quit the Fascist Party. Ignoring this command "Auwi." who is a Fascist Deputy in the Prussian Diet, took his seat last week during the uproar about hoisting the Imperial flag, cast his Hohenzollern vote to keep it flying...
...predecessors did until 1870, he will bless the multitude. Last week Pius XI promulgated a bill granting indulgences to those who visit the Basilicas of St. Peter's, St. John Lateran, St. Mary Major and St. Paul-without-the-wells. "Let us collect our thoughts from the uproar of daily life during the Holy Year," said the Pope. "Let us turn to prayer and penitence for the sins committed by mankind, torn by so many discords, afflicted by troubles...
...were losing. The coach was tearing his hair. He finally turned to me and said, 'Go on, get in there.' I rushed into the game, carried the ball for ten rushes 80 yards down the field and made the touchdown that won the game. With the stands in an uproar, the coach rushed over to me and said 'My God, who . . . where . . . who are you, where did you learn to play such football?' I looked at him, peeled off my sweater and showed him all the decorations and medals pinned on my chest that I had won playing football...
...brings a furtive tear to the editorial eye. It is a great commentary on the stability and solidity of Bryn Mawr undergraduates that an editorial intended to bump the student body gently succeeded only in rocking America to its very foundations. Of course, we feel duly complimented by the uproar we caused in the papers and over the radio, but we are a little abashed to find that the campus looked as charmingly careless on Monday as usual. We launched forth on our subject at great length in what one noble journal described as "the most vitriolic indictment ever hurled...