Word: hubbub
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...hubbub of balloting, all discipline was lost. Cried Club President Mrs. LaFell Dickinson: "Ladies, will you please shut up!" There was even a dark suspicion that some of the alternates were voting illegally. Admonished the chairman: "I know that none of our women would cheat but some might be excited and forget...
...Chestnut. The hub of this hubbub has a soft speaking voice, crew-cut brown hair, a shy smile and stands 5 ft. 10 in a Brooks Brothers suit. He traces his comic ancestry to Frank Fay (for sharpness and restraint) and Bing Crosby (for relaxation and affability). But his thoughtful, economical comedy style is probably more aptly compared with Chaplin...
Thanks to Antonio, the Costas may soon be able to move to roomier quarters. Meanwhile the hubbub has become too much for Papa Costa, a glass worker. Recently Papa took to disappearing mysteriously. One night Mama Costa blindfolded Antonio and pressed the rivet on his neck. "Where's Papa?" she asked sternly. Antonio caressed his father's photograph for a moment. "In front of a table covered with green cloth," he answered. "He's holding a jack of hearts, a seven of clubs and an ace of spades...
...there were many less stately homes in England that badly needed heat, many an ugly factory that needed fuel. Amid the hubbub, Fuel Minister Emanuel Shin-well went right on digging. Said he: "I must have coal...
...passport office was issuing a thousand passports a day, and hundreds of jealous wives wrote in, asking that their husbands' applications be refused; the wives suspected that the bounders merely wanted to visit wartime girl friends on the Continent. The Government did not encourage all this holiday hubbub, either, but for once Britons heeded neither their wives nor their Government. Each week, Cook's alone received 100,000 bookings for trips abroad...