Word: pandemoniums
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...Petrus! Shouts of "Papa! Papa! Evviva Il Papa!" always greet the Holy Father as he is carried through St. Peter's, but last week the fervor of those expressions reached pandemonium when it was seen by all that the Pope's jaw was set, and that he visibly clenched it harder as the Sistine Choir burst into a mighty chant of "TU ES PETRUS!" ("Thou art Peter...
Accompanied by the usual Polish pandemonium, the War Committee of the Sejm (Parliament) changed its chairman last week. Chairman-Kostjlakowski, loyal lieutenant of bombastic Dictator Josef Pilsudski, resigned in a pet, claiming that it was impossible for him to serve while a majority of the War Committee remained hostile. The opposition majority immediately elected Socialist Pataks to take his place, but there were enough Government members on the committee to make things hot for Chairman Pataks. Shouting that he was a lily-livered traitor they demanded his resignation, claimed that he wanted to reduce the Polish Army...
...what amounts to a picture of the League itself working", said one of the leaders of the assembly. "Artificiality must of course enter the meeting because of this procedure. Yet this is best for all concerned; for in a brief and huge meeting such as this spontaneous action means pandemonium...
...absolutely without funds. In order to inspire his enemies with fear he ordered the massacre of 200 political prisoners. That strategy failed to tally, for the enraged populace grabbed President Sam from the French legation, where he had taken refuge, and literally tore him into bits. Pandemonium broke out, and on the following morning, July 28, 1915, Admiral Caperton landed troops and the American intervention began...
...little man was so overcome with joy that tears coursed steadily down his cheeks, sobs choked him. He was unable to respond to frenzied exhortations for a speech. The pandemonium lasted 15 minutes. Almost smothered by his well-wishers, Editor Leon Daudet clung to the famous taxi, the very cab in which last year he was spirited away from the Prison de la Santé to Brussels with French secret service men upon his track (TIME, July...