Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friends in high places in Quebec, in Ottawa and in the Roman Catholic hierarchy. To save Montel from being returned to France and retried on collaboration charges, the Canadian friends built a little fire under the federal cabinet. Aware that Montel's deportation might set off a political uproar in Quebec, where, as in the case of De Bernonville, the collaborator could be portrayed as a victim of anticlerical Communists in postwar France, the federal cabinet decided to follow Bre'r Rabbit...
Proceedings at Memorial Church basement were thrown into a sudden uproar yesterday when authorities discovered that none of the Freshman X-rays taken last Thursday disclosed a chest. A double check revealed that either 483 Freshmen have no ribs or something went wrong with the camera...
Director William Seiter extracts some dry comedy from the Milquetoastian terror of the little clerk and from Venus' languid, Olympian indifference to the uproar she creates. Dick Haymes has a turn at the songs and Eve Arden is good as a secretary who understands her wolf of a boss all too well...
Another Season. But as the public uproar built up, Chairman Sloan did make himself a little more accessible. In calling off the season the week before, Sloan had cut off any further talk with the unions that he blamed for the shutdown (TIME, Aug. 16). Last week, he and six other board members huddled all one afternoon with the union representatives in a Grand Tier-floor room at the Met. When the meeting broke up, one union leader told reporters: "After all, we all left the meeting together, and nobody had any black eyes...
...Fare. It was 4:33 when the police ticker tapped out the news. City rooms broke into a well-ordered uproar. Flagged by telephone, the reporters at Babe Ruth's hospital hustled over to the consulate in a taxicab. They almost missed their editions: all four had just been cleaned out in a poker game, and the cab driver refused to let them out until they had ransacked their pockets for enough nickels & dimes...