Word: hubbub
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hubbub grew wilder and wilder until the Speaker arose. "I must insist," he warned the Laborites, "on honorable members allowing me to conduct the business of the House. I will not continue unless I have proper support." He then rebuked Sir Kingsley for having put a supplementary question which could not appear on the paper...
Just now the hubbub in Washington is distracting public opinion from more important matters. Soon the attempt to forecast the Spring's market will begin. But trade is still too engaged in reviewing the past year to look that far forward with any certainty...
...course for large American consumers of rubber to enter the pres-ent "Rubber Syndicate" and cooperate with it in a fair stabilization of prices. Brazil's own experience with the valorization of coffee is a sufficient indication of the danger of government meddling in international trade. The present hubbub over rubber is mainly a political rather than business issue. It proceeds more from a desire to "twist the lion's tail than from a tender sympathy for tire manufacturers...
...comment is needed. Val and Ernie Stanton contribute an extraordinarily garbled dialogue with a harmonica-ukelele duet thrown in. Frank van Hoven keeps the house in a continual uproar by his conversational method of doing sleight-of-hand. With the aid of three small boys he stages a remarkable hubbub--the best laugh producer of the evening. Frank Wilcox is responsible for an interesting playlet; he is always in trouble because the women would fall in love with him at first sight. Two song and dance acts, one by Harry and Grace Elisworth, the other by Jay Dillon and Betty...