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Drum fire sounded in the Reichstag as debate upon the policies and approval of the new Luther Cabinet opened. Political howitzers fired large, explosive insults, while the smaller guns kept up a din of hissing. Now and again a single rifleman let fly with a derisive snarl. Rarely has a more turbulent session been seen in the historic debating chamber, which was literally filled with growls, gnarls, mutterings and other verbal abuses...
Pandemonium ensued and such remarks as "Shut up!" and "Are you the American Foreign Minister?' pierced the din...
...Government consented to listen to an interpellation on the sardine-packers' strike in Brittany, but the Right Opposition objected and showed their antipathy by banging their desk-lids and shouting. The Left Opposition tried to shout down their opponents across the Chamber and in the ear-splitting din which resulted, Chamber President Painlevé was seen to rise, a pained expression on his face, put on his hat and depart, thereby signifying that the session was at an end. At this moment, several Communists rushed the Nationalist benches and a free fight began, to be ended a half...
...ordered his force of men to guard the street corners in the busiest sections of the city. Automobile drivers were told to honk frequently, to use the full power of their headlights. The only effect was to light up the fog without penetrating it and to cause such a din by the honking as to force the usually voluble French into an exhausted silence. None the less, only a few minor accidents from collision were reported...
...Challenge. When the Shamrock IV trailed the Resolute across the line in the last of the 1920 yacht races for the America's Cup, sportsmen who stared at one another amid the din of the whistle, cheers and salutes?sportsmen who met afterward in London clubs, in Paris bars, in Manhattan cafeterias? asked, rather incredulously than inquisitively: "Will he [Sir Thomas Lipton] challenge again?" Last week, this question was answered. Arriving in the U. S., Sir Thomas said that he would challenge. True, certain formalities must be executed first. Even now international yachtsmen are holding in London a congress...