Word: tumult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...problems raised for Chicago will be far deeper than plans for an appropriate cortege, or for a day of universal mourning. Tumult and shouting can only defer the day when she will have to scan anew the list of aspirants to her highest office. Charles E. Merriam will, somewhat more impatiently after these twenty years, demand again that a government now impecunious must pass to the expert, and to the honest; and at the University there will be reawakened vistas of regulatory grandeur. Clicking receivers will carry tentative promises of patronage to the Mayor's revived political opponents...
...listened gleefully to stockholders shouting disapproval of the management. Saying they understated their case, Chairman Straus summed up: "It is not only the Manhattan situation which is rotten, but I can go further and say that Interborough [Rapid Transit Co.] itself was born in iniquity." After seven hours of tumult. President Roberts of Manhattan Railway waved his arms in despair, yelled: "The meeting is yours." The Amster group then elected their own board and went home...
...worthless burlesque, & hopeless melange of the worst features of the worst detective "thrillers" that the cinema has produced. Professor Moriarty is there, but dull, asthmatic, licking his stupid Bapsburg chops Swearing revenge, the renovated Professor escapes from prison. One is not sure of the method, but there is a tumult of sirens, of whistles, of confused turnkeys slithering over smooth cement floors, of dead ones breathing heartily, hanging stiffly on steel staircases, & splendid tumult to make audiences forgive and forget. The rest is too much. There is a conglomeration of leers pineapples, cockney, forgeries, subway tunnels into bank vaults...
Tear gas was used, four officers were injured, twelve marchers were locked up, several banners demanding "Freedom for the Scottsboro Boys" were torn down and confiscated when Washington police drove 100 demonstrators of the International Labor Defense off the Capitol Plaza one forenoon last week. Undisturbed by the tumult outside, inside the Capitol in the shadowy chambers of the Supreme Court nine old white men reviewed the case of seven young Negroes convicted at Scottsboro, Ala., spring before last, of raping two white girl hoboes in a box car. Political libertarians called the death sentences "legal lynching," but Alabama...
...When the tumult and the shouting has died away, it is easy enough for the sophisticated cynics to make out that this gang or that one had the party's nominee all picked out in advance, that they were simply awaiting the strategic moment before opening the paddock gate and trotting out the winner. Harding, for example...