Word: pandemonium
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Amid the ensuing pandemonium, astute politicians predicted with moral certainty that the Deputies would ratify the Pacts by a more than comfortable majority when the vote should be finally taken...
...Amid pandemonium, the Fascists threw their own hats, and all the hats they could snatch, into the air. Mistaking a streetcar employe with a red "danger" flag for a Communist, they drubbed him soundly. Premier Poullet "turned pale," escaped discreetly through the back door of the Museum, leaving Crown Prince Leopold to receive the Fascists' cheers...
While even the occupants of the royal box appeared to incline a willing ear, and the public galleries seethed amid a pandemonium of approval, Premier Mussolini spoke with a venomous suppressed fury as follows: "Let pan-Germans remember that Italy is ready, if necessary, to carry her banners beyond her present frontiers but back? never! . . . The German anti-Italian agitation is nefarious and ridiculous. I call it nefarious because it is based upon a tissue of lies which the Germans themselves know to be lies. I call it ridiculous because the Germans have thought to frighten our young proud Fascist...
...cheering ensued. An actor in horn-rimmed glasses and huge trousers, "an American," rushed upon the stage from the audience and hinted that there might be still other ways in which "the honest girls of France" could liquidate the national debt. Mlle. Parisys slapped him in the face, amid pandemonium...
...group sent a delegation to see the President and both came away apparently satisfied. On the floor of the conference Miss Gail Laughlin, a San Francisco lawyer, proposed a resolution ousting the regular program for one morning and permitting the Woman's Party group to voice their arguments. Pandemonium at once broke forth. Miss Mary Anderson, head of the Women's Bureau (a onetime immigrant who began her career as a garment worker), pounded in vain for order. At length the resolution was voted on and she declared it lost. Later, however, a special evening session was held...