Word: hubbub
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That was exactly what the Very Rev. Dr. Trivett had in mind. The hubbub of Chinese in his Cathedral was so loud that the Dean had to shout the Anglican service at the top of his voice to get it on cinema sound tracks distinctly. With Chinese mothers suckling their babes in the sacred aisles, with nimble Chinese climbing the Cathedral's pillars for a better view, and with Miss Butterfly Wu triumphant, white friends of the bridegroom and members of the diplomatic corps stayed away and shuddered...
Occidentals are confused when Japan enlarges her territory because at such times the Japanese Army & Navy always quarrel furiously with the Premier and civilian Cabinet members. Only after the hubbub has subsided does it once more appear that all Japanese are patriots and that the Empire has been enlarged by procedure so obscure that no Occidental knows exactly which Japanese to blame...
Perhaps it was the intuition of Adolf Hitler which let this windy provocation pass, and in Rome the intuition of Benito Mussolini was also working overtime, verbal postures of British electioneers, the pained uproar of Continental editors, and the general Homeric hubbub of last week were vastly flattering to the British voter, made him glow with a feeling that his Government, to create such a stir, must indeed deserve many a ballot. Electioneerings...
...cadets aboard, and Brazil's pride, the brass band of the Brazilian Military Academy. Up to the dock where waited President Justo, and in their shiniest toppers, his entire Cabinet, warped the great São Paulo. Guns belched out national salutes, and in the midst of the hubbub there was suddenly a great banging of crate lids and fluttering of wings. Members of the Buenos Aires Pigeon Society were releasing 10,000 bewildered white birds, each with one wing striped blue and white for Argentina, the other yellow and green for Brazil...
...dangerous Socialist. In seven days Manhattan newspapers carried a total of 52 columns of Ford stories. Radicals feared that Mr. Ford was buying his workers' souls with a few extra dollars per week; conservatives were concerned about employes "spending their money foolishly." And out of the deafening hubbub Henry Ford emerged as the international symbol of modern industrialism...