Word: tumult
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...chief responsibility for the tumult in the Office of Civilian Defense has been blamed on its head, round-bottomed Fiorello Henry LaGuardia, but Eleanor Roosevelt, flitting hither & yon, distributing White House roses among her colleagues' desks, has not notably succeeded in straightening things out. Last fortnight, deciding that OCD workers in Washington did not get enough recreation, she got hold of a portable phonograph, at lunch hours led 40 or 50 workers up to the roof to dance Virginia Reels. "Her intentions," said one admirer, "were swell." The First Lady typified the earnestness and confusion with which U.S. women...
...eyes of President Roosevelt, the play was as idealistic as a tragedy in blank verse, full of lofty speeches, sacrifice and noble sentiments-except that every now and then bits of the intellectual scenery fell down and sounds of tumult arose when the stagehands began to battle offstage...
...parts of the globe; 5) Irrevocable Hours, sketches of Hitler, Mussolini, Hess, et al., including a rational argument that Hess is in England because Hitler sent him there; 6) The River Flows Home, a hortatory and prophetic essay suggesting the shape of things to come. Sample: "The tumult breaks out once more. A mob storms the Bastille and a king's head rolls in the dust. Man will be happy yet. . . . You, too, workers of the world, in your slums and lightless factories, you will know the light...
Express Trains. Men who watched were blinded by what they saw. They clung to stanchions, to each other, waiting for sight to return, for the earth where they stood to still itself. And as they wove drunkenly about, they heard the deadly tumult of twelve tons of steel hurtling away, whistling and rattling like more express trains than any man had ever heard together...
...last week's opening, while Benny Goodman's brasses blasted One O'Clock Jump at a jumping, sweating tumult, it seemed that Proser's enormous joint had a chance to make the 30,000 weekly admissions and $18,000 weekly gross estimated as necessary to break even...