Word: tumult
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...excursions and whoops London Reds staged an impassioned demonstration last week before Bow Street Police Court. Red flags were swished and flaunted, the Communist Anthem was chanted ferociously off key. Within the court, Britain's "war on Reds" (TIME, Oct. 26) was gathering cautious headway amid all this tumult. The noted Communists* arrested a fortnight ago were arraigned at a Magistrate's hearing, and Sir Travers Humphreys, acting for the director of Public Prosecutions, set forth the new policy of the Baldwin Government in resorting to stern measures against the Reds, as follows...
When the Gargantuan tumult subsided, 26 parties had gained seats for one or more of their adherents. Observers remarked that little Latvia may well claim to have more identifiable factions than any other republic. The new Parliament, when it assembles, will be called upon to elect the Latvian President...
Communists raised a tumult, called the Chancellor a "tax robber" amid wild cheers, boos, growls. Under threat of police intervention they cooled. Quiet was restored...
...there were. Not far off, the heavy swells, uprearing to heaven, toppled forward in streaming white tumult and stretched away into a flat boil, as smaller waves will over a jutting reef or sand...
...GORILLA?An obvious tumult in which mystery plays are all rolled together and burlesqued shamelessly...