Word: tumult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soon the sun would be lost to sight, dragging its garden of colours behind it. Then the black clouds would cool away or sink like heavy anchors, and with the downing of the gaudy light, the sky would be peppered with blinking stars, gasping for life, weak from the tumult of the sun's going." Her violent story...
Three hundred orphans in an asylum near Ann Arbor, Mich, raised a tumult of delight last week when they learned that Professor Russell Welford Bunting, University of Michigan oral pathologist, had decided that acidophilus bacilli make teeth decay. That meant that Professor Bunting probably was through fussing with the mouths, meals, appetites and digestions of the 300 orphans, whom he has had under close dietary supervision for the past five years...
...tumult & the shouting which attended Leopold Stokowski's final Youth Concert, Philadelphia last week came near forgetting a dark-haired, 19-year-old girl and the composition she had played by his Symphony Orchestra. Stokowski's youths (aged 13 to 25) had worked themselves into a frenzy over his prospective de parture (see above). They yelled for the conductor and, like young Curtis Bok, they aggressively demanded the orchestra board's resignation...
...careful statement: "Reichsführer Adolf Hitler has tried to set against Soviet Russia her natural enemies-Poland and Japan. Realizing that this might endanger the peace of Europe, Russia and France have wished to safeguard their liberty. It is undeniable that an understanding exists between them." Tumult and shouts of Vive la France...
...Euston-to-Blackpool express rocketed north through the night of the British midlands just west of Manchester, past the signal box at tiny Winwick Junction and smack into a puttering local. When the tumult had died and the ten dead had been laid out in the morgue, British Justice last week went ponderously to work on the facts. To an inquest at Warrington was summoned William Bloor...