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Puffing a menthol-cooled cigaret, Prince August Wilhelm von Hohenzollern, fourth son of Wilhelm II, sat in the Visitors' Gallery of the German Reichstag one day last week calmly enjoying a scene of such absolute bedlam, such screeching pandemonium that his smoking passed unchallenged by the ushers...
...celebration there. They were so noisy on the train and in the town, where they stopped a congressman's speech with boos and ridicule, that the faculty began an investigation. The whole student body took up the protest on the night of July 12 and for four hours pandemonium reigned. Horns were blown continuously, windows were broken and furniture was smashed. Effigies of several prominent faculty members were stoned, tortured, burned, and hanged. This uprising, always referred to as "The Great Awakening" was followed by the dismissal of eleven men and virtually dealt the death blow to the ancient...
...Pandemonium on the Artiglio. The gold-bearing Egypt carried easily distinguishable hydraulic cranes of a type no longer used. Diver Alberto came up, Director Alberto went down. So did several other divers. In short order the wreck was identified as the Egypt. Deep in a jungle of seaweed, blurred with brown moss it was unmistakably the Egypt. Bottles were opened on the Artiglio that night, guitars and banjos were strummed...
With the Chamber absolutely in pandemonium Deputy Jean Hennessy, brandy tycoon, jumped up and shouted: "Henry IV, greatest of all the Bourbon Monarchs of France, was given wine in his nursing bottle...
...London Naval Conference but reparations and the U. S. tariff put wrinkles in the brow of Prime Minister Tardieu last week. Fiery French speeches, parades, and burning editorials made a hectic week. It started with pandemonium in the Chamber of Deputies. In the debate on ratifying The Hague reparations agreements ("The Young Plan") chunky Edouard Herriot, perennial Mayor of Lyons, onetime radical Prime Minister (1926) thumped the tribune and boomed...