Word: tumult
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the tumult and shouting has died down, and the suppression of the Advocate and the Lampoon has become a recognized fact, it might be well to look at the situation from the attitude that the college authorities took in this affair. Many agree that the action of the police was mischievous and unwarranted in both cases, but whereas the Lampoon was a clean and clever satire, the Advocate was scarcely so commendable a publication to outsiders. This, if ever, would have been the occasion for the interference of University authorities. But the dean's office, holding to its traditional...
Caesar and Cleopatra. The most heavily padded entrance of the season has been made. When the uproar of applause was past, the impression began to soak in that the tumult over the first play in the new Guild Theatre was a trifle premature...
Borglum rushed to Greensboro, N.C., to meet the habeas corpus proceedings brought in his behalf. There he found that the tumult and the shouting were perceptibly dying. Mrs. Elizabeth Venable Mason, one of the contributors to the Memorial, had been going about saying to influential people things calculated to mollify their feelings. To the press she said...
...Rose in tumult when Republican Floor Leader Longworth, 55, entered the House the morning after the birth of a daughter to his wife, Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Democratic Floor Leader Garrett made a speech of felicitation...
During the tumult of the American election, the western world has not forgotten to watch the fulfillment of prophecies which foretold little good for English Liberals. The loss of two-thirds of their seats in Commons, with the adoption into Baldwin's new cabinet of a former Liberal, Winston Churchill, and Liberal-Coalitionists, are symptoms of the disappearance of the half-way party. In fundamental agreement with the Tory policy which intends to preserve the status quo in politics and economics with just the necessary minimum of flaunting promises to catch the worker's vote, the Liberals had really lost...