Word: tumult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newshawks who have for a century considered that the world's greatest news exchange was London. Last week a British foreign correspondent for the London Daily Herald spoke up for his country's onetime monopoly on world news when George Slocombe offered the U. S. his The Tumult & the Shouting...
...Detroiters applauded indiscriminately for Raisa, Jagel, Ghione, raised the loudest tumult when Ghione made for the wings, led out Thaddeus Wronski, the stalky, middle-aged Polish basso who has long fathered the cause of opera in Detroit. Wronski made his first attempt as a producer in 1923 with an outdoor Aïda in the University Stadium. That night it was so hot that the grease paint streamed down the singers' faces. When the performance was about to begin a wind squall broke, blew down the Egyptian temple which was supposed to serve as the first-act scenery. Faithful...
...that cultured old Jew announced: "The entire efforts of the Popular Front aim at reviving all the sources of national activity. And such revival is impossible without large confidence from the country itself. Therefore, we would be going directly against our own aims were we to precipitate disorders and tumult...
International News Service was led to believe that the Lindberghs had fled simply to escape the approaching tumult over Murderer Hauptmann's execution scheduled for this month. The New York Sun reported that Mrs. Hauptmann had planned to take her child to the Lindberghs' doorstep on Christmas Day, plead for her husband's life. Canvassing of every available Lindbergh relative and associate brought confidential information that the Lindberghs had gone away ''for a three-week Christmas vacation." "until spring," "for a year," "forever...
...then midafternoon. Sharp at 3:40 p.m. Scapegoat Sir Samuel Hoare appeared. If treachery and cowardice had been shown, he was at least the No. 2 Traitor and the No. 2 Coward. What is known as British fair play won him upon his entry a veritable tumult of cheers from all parts of the House of Commons. His chief accuser, Nobel Peaceman Sir Austen Chamberlain, a pillar of official rectitude and a torch of moral indignation against The Deal, had been saving a place for Sam on the overcrowded third bench and as he squeezed into it. the pair cordially...