Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...toward the platform. Connecticut's Baldwin finally showed up from somewhere in the pack around the Michigan delegation. "I don't want to do it," he was saying. "But there's a strong feeling in my delegation for Dewey." The floor was in a minor uproar...
...James's Theater, Guy Domville had opened brilliantly, but during the second act the audience began to laugh at an elderly actress whose hoop skirt and high plumed hat struck them as ridiculous. Then the producer (and star) made an awkward last-act exit, and the uproar became a thunderstorm...
Fast-moving Mr. Taylor's liking for keeping everyone stirred up sometimes palls on his underlings. Once when a visitor asked what all the uproar was in Taylor's office, a bored stenographer answered: "It's just Reese making a new kind of oil again: turmoil...
...defect. At the age of twelve, he was "lifted by the ears" into a train, and began to get deaf. Growing deafness soon drove him away from conversation and into the libraries which made a deeply read man of him. While normal hearers tussled with life's "general uproar," Edison came to love the state of "insulation" which enabled him to "think out my problems" in peace. And freedom from "meaningless sounds" steadily directed his ears to certain minutiae of sound that he could hear very well...
...wanted to erect a theater in 1938, but a popular referendum stopped him. The youngsters took to driving the eleven miles to Orange City's Tulip Theatre. A year ago, the Sioux Center American Legion post leased the Town Hall for a nightly (except Sunday) movie. The resulting uproar split the town squarely down the middle. Merchants liked the trade it brought to town; some citizens thought it kept Sioux Center's youth off the highways. But the Ministerial Association, led by young (30) Rev. Bernard J. Haan, rallied the town's oldsters to the antimovie cause...