Word: tumult
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...noisy, militant affection. Unlike his opponent under similar circumstances, Governor Smith was at ease. He let his people exult, exulted with them. When he was ready, he hushed them. When he was through speaking he stayed among them, shaking his own hands to them all, hailing individuals, happy in tumult...
...tumult and the shouting of the political campaign grows ever shriller and more mordant, Lampy seizes the opportunity to insinuate that these demi-gods who battle amid the rumblings of reform and the crash of platforms are but mortals after all. While the stentorian tones of our fire-eating friends from below the Mason and Dixon Line-and even from nearer home than that-clamor for just retribution to be exacted by a woefully wronged people, Lampy has the temerity to suggest that, "Another thing that Al could do that Moses Couldn't was look good in a brown derby...
...four musicians are Hungarians, from Budapest: from where they have come by way of Paris, in order to play for Mrs. Coolidge at Pittsfield. Tonight they will play the same program which they rendered last week, but an assisting viola will be used in one additional number. Martina's "Tumult", which has previously been heard at Symphony Hall last autumn Lectures of interest...
...Oklahoma City, the restless tension of the packed streets was punctuated by pistol shots as a policeman shot down a pickpocket. When the special pulled in, there was yelling and tumult from the railroad station to the hotel. The Nominee shaved and received newsgatherers in his bathrobe...
...uncertainties of the law are again exemplified in the discovery of the fact that Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, whose kidnapping and murder of Bobby Franks five years ago aroused such tumult. At the time of their sentencing, capital punishment was not inflicted because the two sentences of 99 years for kidnapping and of life for murder seemed to guarantee their imprisonment for the rest of their lives, but due to an error the two sentences are being served at once and with good behavior they can be released after only ten years imprisonment...