Word: pandemoniums
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...highly partisan crowd of 20,000 crupted into limited pandemonium at approximately 4:40 p.m. as the Crimson ran out the clock. The band circled the field seven or eight times, Lloyd Jordan was lifted on tweedy shoulders, and everyone cheered his five words, though no one heard them. The smallness of the group only increased the intensity...
...deny the right of the Speaker to count me present." "Czar" Reed shot back with devastating logic, "The Chair simply stated the fact that the gentleman from Kentucky appears to be present. Does he deny it?" With that, members bolted for the doors. Reed ordered the doors locked. Pandemonium gripped the House of Representatives as members hid under desks, shouted curses at Reed and beat down the doors. But Reed had his quorum, and he kept a tight control of the House...
...improbable commotion completely fill the screen, and the ordered nonsense is a monument to the direction of Howard Hawks. He has filmed the hectic action without losing either reasonable pace or timing, and the result is a picture that does with clever dialogue what Olsen and Johnson do with pandemonium and underdone custard pies. The only possible improvement would be a more thoughtful spacing of laughs. One can easily miss several excellent boffs while recovering from ones coming just before. The answer is to sit through two shows...
...only standard against which the case of Harry Dexter White can be tested. If that case helps the people rationally decide whether Democrats deserve office in the near-future and if it aids in devising means, consistent with civil liberties, to bar communist infiltration, then it is worth the pandemonium. We suggest, however, that it fails on both counts...
...touring Vice President Richard Nixon sat enjoying an official program of folksongs and dancing in Korea, part of the low stage collapsed, easing some 40 performers to the ground. In the ensuing pandemonium, the orchestra leader fled the theater in tears. Then Nixon took the situation in hand, leaped to his feet and led a round of applause. After the entertainers clambered back onto the remainder of the stage and finished the show, Nixon commented: "Another example of the courage of the Korean people...