Word: hubbub
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...coarse way, he began editing plays for production, soon became a play agent, buying and renting the works of others. On the side he kept a brothel: "In his tavern in Deadman's Lane, sub-leased to Widow Lee, Will Shakspere . . . created . . . a roistering hubbub." His "broken, almost falsetto voice" became a feature of London life. His "fat body" was soon "taxed by excesses." Many suffered from "his scheming tricks ... his dirty dealing and underhand passing of coin, all the shabby pretense in the double-faced glutton and roisterer...
...same could scarcely be said about the shortage of men. Manpower problems, which received more wordage in the press than any other domestic issue, remained throughout the year a confused hubbub. Organizationally, progress was made when Paul V. McNutt was appointed supreme manpower czar by the President, taking over not only industrial mobilization but Brigadier General Lewis B. Hershey's Selective Service as well. Mr. McNutt promised that sooner or later the U.S. would get a civilian selective law similar to Britain's. But whether McNutt, the politician, would prove as shrewd an organizer of men as Eberstadt...
...Utah this week political dopesters figured the chains had a better than even chance to win. For one thing the all-powerful Mormon Church has been pleasantly silent during the whole hubbub (perhaps because it controls a wholesale house which sells to chain stores). If the chains win, it will be their biggest victory since California voters tossed out chain-store taxes in 1936, will probably mean an all-out drive against the chain-store tax laws of 19 other States...
...handful of Senators and Congressmen became purple last week attacking and defending the McCormick-Patterson publishing family. At hubbub's end the man who had taken the hardest lumps was not widely hated Colonel Robert McCormick, of the Chicago Tribune, but the most engaging member of the family: Captain Joe Patterson of the New York Daily News...
...record-breaking finale on May 21 there was hurly-burly and hubbub on a first-night scale. Lush young models in picture hats drove 45 miles from Seattle. Half a dozen dairy greats flew 1,743 miles from Chicago for the event. Reporters swarmed around the platform where Capper posed behind velvet ropes. Milker Gockerell took his place, started to milk. A nervous photographer interrupted to ask him to move Capper's stern a few degrees to port. Infuriated, Gockerell shouted: "You can't shove a cow like this around. She's got ideas...