Word: pandemonium
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...Pandemonium. . . . Eventually Speaker John Whitley caused the Right Honorable "Jack" Jones to be ejected from the House...
Laborite Tom Shaw (interjecting) : "I may say, as the Secretary of State for India once said, in one of his sober moments?" (Pandemonium, furious shouts from friends of the Secretary, the Earl of Birkenhead, a discriminating, not a swizzling drinker...
...noise lasting a quarter-hour. Carnegie Hall, jammed to the guards, sat quite still for perhaps two minutes. Then men began shouting across the auditorium. Paper darts sailed down from the galleries. Some people rammed their fists against their ears. Two women jumped up and left the room, running. Pandemonium continued. Ears ached, foreheads throbbed. There was no denying that all the noises in the U. S. had been reproduced except the explosion of Black Tom. That might come at any moment. But no-after an inferno that only a very serious person could have invented came silence. The Manhattanites...
...telegrams poured in. People brought him dead cats and said ,he had advertised for them. Three florid women came with valises, and went away insulted. Some two hundred children came with jelly glasses full of spiders. They had heard that Herr Strauss could pay for them. It was bedlam, pandemonium...
Soon, amid pandemonium, 25 Russians were ejected, including Andrew Tolstoy who was marched roughly into the street by Patrolman Higginson. "He says," the patrolman told reporters, "that he is related to some Wop Count that's dead, and used to write books...