Word: hubbubing
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City Room. At 2 a. m. a rewrite man took pencil and copy-paper into a telephone booth. The subdued hubbub that had filled the room all night died away to silence. Everyone crowded toward the city desk: writers, artists, "legmen" (seldom seen in the office), compositors and pressmen clustered ten deep about the chair of Benjamin Franklin, night city editor. They stood in silence, waiting and wondering with heavy hearts-jobs or no jobs? World or no World...
...known in the land-grant case. It was said that many an official crook would have wished his death in that event. The Cleveland Plain Dealer went so far in its news columns as to remark: "Is it possible that whoever killed Bill Potter considered . . . that in the ensuing hubbub . . . there would be a not too gentle warning to Listen Schooley to keep his mouth shut...
...birth of great men (viz. Benjamin Franklin, 10th son of his father, eighth child of his mother), Mrs. Sanger popped out: "I call your attention to the fact that the great leader of Christianity, Jesus Christ, was said to be an only child." Her unlearned remark** immediately raised hubbub...
When last July President Hoover named Mr. Roosevelt as No. 2 man to Governor General Dwight Filley Davis at Manila, a great hubbub was raised against him by leaders of the Philippine independence movement. A New York Times editorial writer, Mr. Roosevelt had visited the islands in 1925, investigated conditions, published a book (The Philippines, a Treasure and a Problem) which incensed politicos. Mr. Roosevelt was denounced as an enemy of the island people. After his appointment his book was burned in protest. Because the Senate had failed to confirm his nomination, he did not travel to Manila to take...
...Balintawac outside Manila assembled last week 2,000 excited Filipino peasants to hear fiery speeches in Tagalog flaying Nicholas Roosevelt, appointed last month, Vice Governor-General of the Philippines. Ever since his appointment Philippine politicos have raised a great hubbub against him because, in 1926 while working for the New York Times, he wrote a book called The Philippines, A Treasure and a Problem in which they thought he defamed their public integrity and private morals. The Balintawac meeting at which 20,000 were expected was the feeble culmination of vigorous political agitation. A copy of the Roosevelt book...