Word: tumult
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...Catholic demonstrations before Nazi sympathizers. The next evening Nazi groups struck back. Storming the archiepiscopal palace adjoining the Cathedral, they hurled stones through the windows, pushed past a gateman, entered the palace itself and indulged in a little looting. Cardinal Innitzer, praying in his private chapel throughout the tumult, was reported to have been slightly injured by crashing glass from a broken window. Later, the crowd made a bonfire in St. Stephen's Square, burned a small crucifix, a painting of the Virgin Mary and a portrait of the Cardinal, scrawled on the walls of the palace: "Away with...
...tumult and the shouting dies; " The captains and the kings depart: " Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice, " An humble and a contrite heart...
...University. In its most populous stretch, between Claremont and Tremont, it is a cheerful, neighborly street, where on the summer evenings Jewish housewives lean from their windows or sit in chairs drawn out on the sidewalks, where kids on roller skates coast down the slight slope and where the tumult of a thousand conversations, of hundreds of mothers calling their children, is an antiphony to the sound of passing motors...
Politics. D'Annunzio had been elected Deputy from Ortona de Mare in 1897. Fellow legislators dubbed him "The Deputy of Beauty." He took his seat on the Right but one day the tumult and shouting from the Socialist benches impressed him. He stilled the Chamber. "I walk toward life," he announced, and in full drama crossed over to the Left. But he did not stay long, quit Socialism and politics...
...sings, impersonates a night-spot entertainer, and incidentally rescues her native Spain from the ravages of the rapacious Emperor Napoleon of France by her Mata Hari sleuthing for the local military intelligence. Spain, as all the world knows, was overrun by Napoleon's armies, and subsequently rescued, amid much tumult and shouting and bombs bursting in air, by the iron Duke of Wellington. Many a time have we seen the good duke's armies cavorting on the silver screen, and never to such advantage as in "The Firefly." We feel, however, as one whose ancestors fought in the Peninsula Campaign...