Word: pandemonium
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...stands the Zulus' Queen (this year, attractive, brown-skinned Bernice Oxley, ticket taker at the Ace Theater). In a room where the caskets have been pushed back to the wall, she receives her lord's champagne toast. After the parade the long night of jazz-filled, carnival pandemonium begins...
...Manager Leo Durocher to patient Burt Shotton, and kept going. Last week, in an Ebbets Field doubleheader that had some of the tenseness and all the excitement of a World Series, the rags-to-riches Bums beat the Braves in the opener, 8-7, and seized first place amid pandemonium in the bleachers. A couple of hours later, amid more pandemonium, the Braves took it back, 2-1, and Brooklyn's bright blue banner was hauled down. One big reason why it was too soon to count the faltering Braves out: Shortstop Alvin Dark, whose fat .331 batting average...
...first clear news which came out of the pandemonium of Philadelphia this week, the U.S. took heart and hope. So did the anxious world. For the big news from Philadelphia was that the Republican Party, which already controlled Congress and by all the signs would soon have the presidency as well, would not retreat from internationalism...
...True Picture." He had told his audience what most of them wanted to believe and they applauded him thunderously. But not all. A Kaifeng delegate piped that the report was "incomplete and inadequate." Pandemonium erupted in the hall. A woman member from Honan sobbed: "Honan is almost entirely in Communist hands. We must have the true picture...
...last week, however, it was not Apps or Bentley who got acclaim from fellow Maple Leafs as they loosened skates and climbed out of their pads. "There's our champ," said Boss Smythe, pointing at mild Harry Watson, "enter him in the heavyweight class." Boss Smythe knows that pandemonium on skates is good for business. Four nights later, Toronto dumped Boston from the playoffs, got ready to buck Detroit in the finals...