Word: upset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...having posters printed with the slogan KING OR CHAOS! Actually the electorate showed signs of splitting to candidates of minor radical parties such as normally would give Canada's old guard Conservatives and Liberals no worries whatever. Ominous was a remark by Liberal Mitchell ("Mitch") Hepburn, who upset Ontario's entrenched Conservatives and became Premier (TIME, July 2, 1934). On a national electioneering swing last week, "Mitch" Hepburn told a pep meeting of Liberal Party workers in British Columbia : "In the West the situation is so scrambled up that I just don't know what will happen...
...Cramm in Davis Cup play, that, at 30, he had passed his peak as an athlete. Day after his match against Perry last week, Allison's opponent was the brilliant, tow-haired, temperamental Sidney Wood, who had reached the final by beating Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant, who had upset ailing young Donald Budge. Faced once more with a chance for a major championship, Allison finally took it, in one of the most one-sided finals in Forest Hills history...
...Singles trophy. Moreover, he will have done so against a field which includes, except for Australia's Crawford, Germany's von Cramm and England's Bunny Austin, all the best amateur players in the world. If he fails, it will be the biggest upset in a sporting year full of surprises. Scanning the field last week tennis enthusiasts could pick out at least half a dozen players who might conceivably accomplish the impossible...
Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, who called himself Paracelsus, was a riproaring, swaggering Swiss who in his short life (1493-1541) completely upset the medieval practice of medicine. He learned medicine and surgery "from executioners, bathkeepers, gypsies, midwives, and fortune tellers and incidentally acquired an unusual knowledge of folk-medicine and a permanent taste for low company." He believed in gnomes, sylvans, sprites, salamanders, macrocosms, microcosms. He knew botany, alchemy. He feared no man and he broke the laws of his profession, his Government and his God. Before he died as the result of being stabbed in a tavern...
...products ever received more spontaneous publicity. The first Austins were in constant danger of being upset by crowds. Smart businessmen sent them cruising the streets to advertise their wares. Funnysheets pictured them slipping under trucks, causing tall men to trip. For a while this publicity had all the advantages of the Ford joke, and orders ran three months ahead of production. But when pranksters took to driving them into ballrooms and down fire escapes, the U. S. public decided that "Baby Austins" were silly, would not be seen in them...