Word: pandemoniums
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Usual Polish pandemonium broke out. Communists unfurled a huge red banner, flapped it in the faces of government deputies who closed their eyes and lustily bawled the "War Song of the Legionaries of the First Brigade" (favorite Pilsudski anthem), then marched from the hall...
Instantly the Commons was in such pandemonium as might be caused in Congress by barely hinting that the U. S. cannot prosper without cutting the interest rate on Liberty Bonds. "Explain! Explain!" roared Conservatives at pallid, crippled Chancellor Snowden; but for two whole days he maintained impassive silence. Horrid inference: the avowedly Socialist Labor Cabinet harbors hopes of someday tampering even with sacrosanct War Bonds...
...cave, after the crude meal, they played j games with polished bones and round stones, and yelled with delight or rolled upon the ground with laughter and wild glee. Sometimes, in the excitement, they would forget that they were playing, and would begin to fight. There would be terrific pandemonium, and the embers of 1 the camp fire would be scattered and the game forgotten. "The play spirit has endured. . . ." Helen Wills, world's No. 1 lady tennis-player, in the Saturday Evening Post. Anna May Wong, Chinese-American cinemactress, said: "I see no reason why Chinese and English...
...that on Prince Umberto's return to Italy he felt obliged to respond to cheering with the Fascist salute. Previously H. R. H., like other young Royalist officers, has used the military salute. Standing on a balcony of the Royal Palace in Milan, while a Fascist mob made pandemonium below, the Heir of Italy for the first time raised his right arm stiff-elbowed and with palm extended, aped II Duce...
Thirty lawyers appeared to defend Assassin Ratchitch last week; 60 to prosecute him. The legal babble approached a pandemonium. Jugoslavia is excellent tinder for an immediate conflagration. Therefore, the trial of Ratchitch was despatched with more than usual speed and sentence was passed, last week, condemning the slayer of Raditch to 20 years' imprisonment at hard labor. Croats calculated the bitter mathematics. Three men had died from the Ratchitch bullet. Twenty years' imprisonment for Ratchitch; the life of a Raditch therefore was worth exactly six years and eight months of a Ratchitch life. They fingered the revolvers in their pockets...