Word: rumpusing
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...foreign Princess and one Hollingsworth Chase, American adventurer. The walking delegate of the Natives' Union, local No. 1, argues that the matter may best be settled by massacring the whole white contingent. Nine or ten thousand natives are acting on his advice when an American gunboat hears the rumpus, drops a shell in the courtyard of the besieged chateau, details a platoon of marines. The masses of natives melt. The chateau, the mines, the people are saved. To make it completely safe for 100% Americanism, the Princess, foregoing her regal alliances, decides that plain Mrs. Hollingsworth Chase is good...
...meeting in the Manhattan Opera House took place without any untoward incident, except a rumpus created by a band of hostile Irish, who were, however, held in check by the police. At this meeting Mr. George made his last speech, exhorted the U. S. to join Britain in saving civilization, which, said he, " is doomed within this generation to a catastrophe such as the world has never seen unless something is swiftly done to save...
Although this ignoble scene was said to have been caused by personal enmity, observers have it that the rumpus was a sinister forerunner of bloodshed in next year's Presidential campaign...
Signor Salandra, Italian representative of the Council of the League, declined to permit* the League to intervene in the Italo-Greek rumpus, stating that it was incompetent to do so. Among the number of protests at this attitude, the speech of Lord Robert Cecil was significant. He cited Articles X, XII, XV of the Treaty of Versailles (League Covenant). The words Treaty of Versailles " struck immediately everyone present." Lord Robert pointed out that the articles were to be found in the Treaties of St. Germain, Neuilly and Trianon; if they were disregarded " the whole settlement...
...France is self-admittedly in no hurry to settle the reparations and Ruhr rumpus. (This last point means that the Germans must change their tune and show that they are sincerely anxious to have peace by stopping passive resistance before the French will start negotiating...