Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only writes a front-page column (The Low Down on the Higher Ups) and three columns of editorial pizen, but until recent years he insisted on covering the Legislature himself. One evening last week a sizzling session of the Legislature-which has long frustrated the Governor-ended in an uproar. But Paul Johnson had had enough of words. Next night, in the crowded lobby of one of Jackson's political centres, the Walthall Hotel, Governor Johnson rushed upon Sullens, as the editor and his pretty young wife of a year crossed to enter the elevator...
...slept on the floor, were required neither to take baths or medical examinations. Father Rice, who was then directing St. Joseph's as a side line to his parish work, hearing rumors that the city might close the place, exclaimed: "I'll go to jail first!" The uproar resulted in gifts of some 150 beds to St. Joseph...
Ever since the Ottoman Empire's European frontiers began to recede toward Asia, the Balkans have been more or less in an uproar. The Greeks, Serbs, Croats, Montenegrins, Macedonians, Bulgars, Albanians, Rumanians all had their go at the Sultan and then fell to fighting among themselves. Half the time these little nations fought as the puppets of greater European Powers, and the Peninsula's reputation as the tinderbox of Europe was well-earned...
When, on the opening night of The New Hellzapoppin (TIME, Dec. 25), chorines went down into the aisles to dance a Boomps-a-Daisy with the audience, they routed Al Smith out of his seat, had customers in profusion and the house in an uproar. On the opening night of the Vanities, when Carroll's prettiest girls went down into the aisles to play Patticake, they glad-eyed everybody from Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt to an old man from Sioux City, but not a soul would play...
...uproar...