Word: hubbub
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Borah of Idaho still wore the air of a preoccupied man. The red carnation of New York's Copeland flashed amiably, urbanely. Came Couzens of Michigan and McNary of Oregon, to colloquize earnestly, apart from the hubbub. The long, black coat and white expanse of waistcoat were Overman's, of North Carolina...
General Maurice Sarrail, who commanded the Third Army in France during the War, has many friends; these friends started a verbal rumpus to have him made a Marshal of France. The friends of General Michel de Castelnau, also numerous, heard the faint hubbub of Sarrailites and started a campaign to have their hero made a Marshal of France. When Generals Fayolle and Franchet d'Esperey were given the batons of a marshal, General de Castelnau was one of the disappointed Generals. His friends declared that the authorities had slighted him be cause of his well-known Royalist sympathies...
...hubbub grew wilder and wilder until the Speaker arose. "I must insist," he warned the Laborites, "on honorable members allowing me to conduct the business of the House. I will not continue unless I have proper support." He then rebuked Sir Kingsley for having put a supplementary question which could not appear on the paper...
Just now the hubbub in Washington is distracting public opinion from more important matters. Soon the attempt to forecast the Spring's market will begin. But trade is still too engaged in reviewing the past year to look that far forward with any certainty...
...course for large American consumers of rubber to enter the pres-ent "Rubber Syndicate" and cooperate with it in a fair stabilization of prices. Brazil's own experience with the valorization of coffee is a sufficient indication of the danger of government meddling in international trade. The present hubbub over rubber is mainly a political rather than business issue. It proceeds more from a desire to "twist the lion's tail than from a tender sympathy for tire manufacturers...