Word: tumult
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...supreme personalities of entertainment had fulfilled her promise, and Meller, who carries eight golden bracelets as mementos of her great successes, was fully entitled to purchase a ninth golden bangle. Yet the barrier of language and the unfamiliarity of a charm that has fathomless depths but no tumult had obtruded themselves. The audience had been appreciative, engrossed, deeply stirred; but they did not drag her coach home to the hotel...
...tumult and the shouting, in fact, all the wowseries and whiffle bangings of last week have faded into obscurity and Baltimore, as Boston settles down, if not to the domination's of the Society for the Prevention of Profligate Abstractions, at least to the quiet and calm which is as much a part of the town as the diversity of her minor monotonies. Genuine reflection, however does continue and prompts an occasional reference to the story of the lady whose name was not Lou and the man who sold the story on Brimstone Corner...
...Jacques Dumesnil, one of the chief sponsors of the Cartel bill as a whole, groaned aloud. Protesting at the top of his lungs he cried: "Imbeciles! Scelerats!! All you are capable of voting is that the largest class of electors shall pay nothing!" As the tumult mounted to utter bedlam, the President of the Chamber put on his hat and stalked from the room, thus officially declaring the Chamber not in session. The disgusted gentleman who stalked was none other than M. Herriot himself, the ostensible leader of the fractious Cartel...
...Stadium resigns itself to cold and windswept emptiness. The tumult and the shouting die away. And Harvard is very proud and quite content...
LIFE BEGINS TOMORROW-Guide de Verona (Translated by Isabel Grazebrook) - Button $2.00). The emotional and stylistic tumult of this book will quite dismay the normal reader. It is an attempt to plumb terrific abysses, to scale sheer pinnacles of human nature; and the author, dizzied by exertion, indulges a hot Latin temperament to inartistic excess. With strong physiologic emphasis, the story is told of a medical genius who attends his best friend, an engineering genius. He and the friend's wife are overpowered by love for each other, she becoming enceinte. Death of the husband will mean life...