Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost immediately every one of the 470 sculptors was on his feet, demanding for himself the honor of making a speech on the first day of Spain's Republican Parliament. At the height of the uproar, when chandeliers shook with the din, Narciso Vasquez Lemus, the oldest Deputy, who was presiding, clapped his hat on his ancient cranium and adjourned the meeting. Two things were accomplished: Julian Besteiro, moderate Socialist leader, was elected President of the Assembly (Speaker of the House). Deputies, who dearly love their siestas, agreed that the Cortes should meet at 7 p. m., remain...
...Chatterton chatter became an uproar for the third time last week when Hearst-Chippy Louella O. Parsons reported that "Ruth Chatterton goes to Warner Bros. That is definite and final." Paramount announced that they had made arrangements to buy Author Philip Barry's stage success Tomorrow and Tomorrow to be made into Cinemactress Chatterton's next talkie, stated that there had been no change in the situation since the agreement last spring. Warner Bros, officials refused to comment on the rumor...
...midst of all this uproar, President Machado last week signed a decree allowing all suppressed Cuban newspapers and magazines to resume publication...
Revolution came to Kiangsu and gave Wang Lung a lucky break. In the uproar he stumbled on a good windfall of loot, and back they all went to Anhwei. The farm was in a dreadful state, but money mended matters; soon Wang Lung was richest man in the village. Famines came again but he outrode them. Olan served him well and truly, lived to see herself supplanted by Lotus, a pretty but sterile harlot-mistress. Wang Lung's sons grew up to disappoint him. He was proud of their superior education but grieved that they cared nothing...
...chapel emitted, in the dead of night, not gentle, melodious, bell-music but a prodigious, strident jingling & jangling. There had been, Grotonians knew, depredations in the chapel. To catch the marauders (presumably schoolboys), wires and alarms had been rigged up. These went off, set the campus in an uproar, revealed naught but the fact that the alarm mechanism was faulty, had worked spontaneously. The villains have never been caught...