Word: hullabaloo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strange how little stir is made in this country over the election of a President. The people make a great fuss and a hullabaloo about going to the polls in November and electing 531 citizens, mostly nobodies, who never make or administer. But when, in January, these 531 "nobodies" assemble in little groups here and there and elect the President of the U. S. for four years to come, the people know little of it and care less. So little interest attends the event that it is some weeks before the ballots are assembled and counted...
...these days we are assisting at a kind of babel, a confusion of tongues, the whole hullabaloo being dominated by that long word "normalization," whose consistent ambiguity I have already clearly denounced. According to the Opposition we should become good Liberals and continue the traditions of the risorgimento for which the Liberals alone claim credit, while as a matter of fact some of its chief figures were Republicans, like Mazzini and Garibaldi, or Federalists, like Cattaneo, or even Socialists, like Pisacane...
...delegates, men and women masquerading as cowboys set up a hullabaloo and began to march. At the head of the column on the shoulders of two men was Miss Josephine Dorman, plump San Franciscan in red, white and blue. She sang, shouted, hurrahed for her candidate. She did it till she was red in the face, almost hysterical. Other women joined in the frenzy. Cornetists aggravated it. Cheerleaders inspired it. Songs bolstered it. Those who took part were the group opposite to that which had paraded against the Ku Klux. Klan. The Herculean effort wore itself...
...first problem that was thrust upon it was the investigation of the Italo-Greek hullabaloo, and it may be said that on the results it achieves in settling the dispute will depend the very existence of the League as a potent factor in regulating international affairs...
...hullabaloo caused in China by Japan's refusal to abrogate the 1915 treaty-extension of leases on Liao-Tung peninsula-is not without its resultant action in Japan. A public movement has been started by the National League of Japan designed to oppose any action toward cancellation of the treaty...