Word: pandemonium
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...Wang, Yale 1910, Phi Beta Kappa. "I shall remain at my post and attend to my duties," boldly retorted Minister Wang. Crash, rip, zip, bang! A frenzied mob of students rushed the Foreign Office, burst through hastily locked doors, hurled chairs and toppled desks, charged in wild pandemonium for Mr. Wang. "Traitor!" they yelled. "You have betrayed China! Death, death to Wang!" Before defenseless Minister Wang could rise, a well hurled inkpot gashed his head. Mobsmen with clubs laid on. The Foreign Minister of China was almost beaten then and there to Death, would have been had not his loyal...
Gestating 107th Street was thrown into a pandemonium which had repercussions throughout the city, the State, the nation and abroad. At first none knew or would reveal who the intended victim was. Newshawks and police suspected renewed warfare between beerleggers. Later a bookmaker named Anthony ("Big Tee") Buzzone told police he was the man, explained that the attack was the result of a bookmakers' price war. The mother of one of the shot-down children admitted: "We Italians are not courageous enough to come out and tell what we know. . . . We are afraid. They will come and kill...
...Pandemonium shook the rafters. Matthias Erzberger, a sloppily dressed, good-natured, coarse-voiced Swabian, was perhaps Germany's shrewdest post-War statesman, certainly became Germany's best hated man. As Secretary of State without Portfolio at the time of the Armistice, it was his melancholy duty not only to sign the Armistice but to persuade Germany that she had to accept the Versailles Treaty. Schultz and Tillessen, two Bavarian Nationalists acting under orders from German secret societies, murdered him in the Black Forest...
Baby Bombs. Troubled by the daily succession of "baby bombs" which have made Cuba pandemonium for weeks without doing much real damage (TIME, Jan. 26 et seq.), Dictator-President Gerardo Machado offered last week to compromise with his detonating enemies...
...Montana with his fist. Montana defended himself, knocked Kilonis across the ring. Referee Cyclone Fox declared Montana winner on a foul. Kilonis took a swing at Cyclone Fox. Montana helped Fox. Spectators jumped into the ring to help Kilonis. More spectators jumped in to help Montana. Riot and pandemonium followed. No one was seriously hurt. Some of Montana's pictures: Show of Shows; Good Morning, Judge; How to Handle Women...