Word: hubbub
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...National Horse Show, held annually in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, has long been the No. 1 sport event on the U. S. social calendar, partly because the high jinks and hubbub which always accompany it afford occasion for a discreet parade of fashion and public display, partly because it is one of the few sporting events in which women can compete on an equal footing with men. But it was not until the 1920s, when the horse had lost its last stigma of practicality, that the Horse Show, with two exceptions an annual event since 1883, actually came...
Hugo Loeser, a 57-year-old liquor importer from Chicago, went sightseeing in London's City (financial district) last week. Coming upon what he took to be a busy broker's office, he stepped in to have a look at stock quotations. The hubbub of voices steadily increased, so did shouts of "1401!" Puzzled and amused by this chant. Mr. Loeser suddenly noticed that I he was surrounded. Someone jostled him. His hat was knocked off. Next thing he knew he was in the street, straightening his rumpled clothes, looking up into the red face of a bobby...
...French company prepare an extravagant hoax, take over an inn Garrick must stop at en route, man it with players from their troupe. Plan is to give Garrick an alarmingly warm welcome. Tipped off, Garrick and his man Tubby (E. E. Horton) affect serene indifference to the staged hubbub...
...hope that the next time you come, you will compromise yourself. We all compromise ourselves here, and it is not fair that you sit by dispassionately observing us." The members' talk was not always as enamelled as their published words. On another occasion Gautier pierced a hubbub of argument by remarking: "I am very strong. I can hit 357 on the Turk's head at the Fair, and what is more, my metaphors make sense. That is what counts." Careful Critic Sainte-Beuve: "Criticism consists in saying whatever comes into one's head. That is all there...
Immediately there rose a hubbub of a far different sort than follows most crashes. Said Daytona Beach Airport Manager Peter Dygert: "I am sure the pilot did not know the power line was there. ... I was not informed last night of the new line being strung. This morning I was informed that the line was placed there to give service to a small area to the west which had been interrupted when an underground cable failed...