Word: hubbub
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...present hubbub, instigated at the College of the City of New York at the editor of "Campus", the college paper, in an attempt to sound undergraduate opinion on the presence in the curriculum of the course in military science, culminates today and tomorrow in a ballot of the college by the Student Council. In this way the advocates of the abolition of this course hope to present sufficient undergraduate sentiment opposing its continuance to convince the faculty that it should be removed...
Although most of the capital now invested in utility enterprises is in actually operating companies, the late financial hubbub has occurred in the shares of holding companies. According to Mr. Insull, such holding-company shares have risen to unreasonable heights in recent markets, For, as he points out, the utility business is always subject to regulation by public commissions in a way unknown to ordinary industrial concerns. Yet security speculators persist in looking upon utility-holding-company stocks in the same light as industrial shares...
...grandstands arose a hubbub. Individually, each sound was intelligible; collectively, they were like the jabbering of so many apes...
...this point, a pertinent remark was interjected into the hubbub by S. Parker Gilbert, Agent General of Reparations. Said the young genius: "It is too early. It need not have been debated for a couple of years yet. We shall have to wait and see how the money comes in and how much France gets from Germany...
Hardly had this hubbub died down than the Grand Duke arrived, landed. With him were the Grand Duchess, whom Boris married in Paris six years ago; Mme. Rachevsky, mother-in-law; Princess Natalie, niece; Baron Nicholas Crown, secretary. The Grand Duke-a man just over medium height, 47 years old, with a quizzical round face on the top of which grows a fringe of dark hair turning grey and into which is set a pair of jovial, navy-blue eyes-was highly delighted to be in the U. S. Even the assaults of the everlasting newspaper squad could not extinguish...