Word: pandemoniums
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...Amid pandemonium the Deputies voted "adjourment until tomorrow," thus constituting themselves a Rump Reichstag. Rumors flew that 84-year-old Paul von Hindenburg would declare martial law, call out the Army and disperse the Reichstag with bayonets should it dare to meet. Not anxious to be pinched or prodded, Fascist Göring said that, after all, perhaps there might be no rump session...
...lights, the balloons, the organ, etc., etc. as they had been carefully scheduled to sustain a half-hour "demonstration." When he held up the placard numbered "1" and blew a whistle, the band, poised at an exit with Governor Rolph at its head, marched on the floor. Organized pandemonium broke loose...
...Chinese Pandemonium broke loose when, day after the Pax Britannica was initialed, the Chinese Government of Marshal Chiang Kai-shek telegraphed orders to Chinese mayors and garrison commanders to suppress promptly and at once any anti-Japanese societies or other boycott groups in their districts...
...majority was increased. After an unusually long wait Pickett appeared, but no red shirt, and was greeted mainly by hisses & jeers. He made several futile attempts to connect with the bull, evidently trying to save his handsome cow-pony from being gored, and finally retired from the ring, with pandemonium at his heels. . . . He finally returned and with scarcely any delay rode straight at the bull, who was meeting him half way. In this contact the pony was gored in the chest section and in the encounter Pickett was able to obtain his position for throttling the bull...
Above the roar of City Hall Park, Manhattan, in the big, musty room of the Federal District Court, famed Judge Julian William Mack rapped for order. There was a polite pandemonium caused not by expectant gum-chewers but by 50 lawyers who were trying to find seats on the Defense side of the case. United States v. Sugar Institute, Inc. They filled the jury box (for there was no jury). They flowed over into the spectator rows, squatted on rickety benches. The only one who was sure of a seat was John C. Higgiris of Sullivan & Cromwell...