Word: upset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Edwin Scrymgeour (rhymes with primper), 80, teetotaling, Bible-quoting Scottish Prohibitionist who trounced Winston Churchill in a 1922 election upset, served nine years in Parliament, was himself soundly defeated when he tried to outlaw alcohol in Britain; in Dundee, Scotland...
...basketball Varsity upset Princeton in a return engagement in New Jersey, 50 to 40 (see story on this page...
Selznick was first "surprised," then "upset" at the complaints. He had Johnston office approval before releasing the picture, had not shown it to the Legion of Decency only because a Technicolor strike had delayed prints of it until too late. Moreover, the film had not yet been distributed nationally. Selznick murmured that there might be some revisions. But an extended ban by the Catholic Church would mean plenty of trouble. Duel, already expensively delayed, could not be held up and revised if it was to gross the $20,000,000 that Selznick expected...
Although Penn and Cornell both met with upset defeats last weekend in Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League action, Ivy League court followers are of the belief that tomorrow night's contest between these co-favorites at Philadelphia should prove an important factor in determining the ultimate winner of the title...
According to another version, the nudes appeared on a float labeled "For Export Only"-a reference to the fact that Britain's consumer-goods factories produce chiefly for export. A guest, inflamed by politics or alcohol, attacked the float. The crowd surged in. The float was upset. The girls were heaped on the floor. The fights began...