Word: tumult
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Caesar and Cleopatra. The most heavily padded entrance of the season has been made. When the uproar of applause was past, the impression began to soak in that the tumult over the first play in the new Guild Theatre was a trifle premature...
Borglum rushed to Greensboro, N.C., to meet the habeas corpus proceedings brought in his behalf. There he found that the tumult and the shouting were perceptibly dying. Mrs. Elizabeth Venable Mason, one of the contributors to the Memorial, had been going about saying to influential people things calculated to mollify their feelings. To the press she said...
...Rose in tumult when Republican Floor Leader Longworth, 55, entered the House the morning after the birth of a daughter to his wife, Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Democratic Floor Leader Garrett made a speech of felicitation...
During the tumult of the American election, the western world has not forgotten to watch the fulfillment of prophecies which foretold little good for English Liberals. The loss of two-thirds of their seats in Commons, with the adoption into Baldwin's new cabinet of a former Liberal, Winston Churchill, and Liberal-Coalitionists, are symptoms of the disappearance of the half-way party. In fundamental agreement with the Tory policy which intends to preserve the status quo in politics and economics with just the necessary minimum of flaunting promises to catch the worker's vote, the Liberals had really lost...
...will not rejoice that the hour of hoarse spellbinders has at length passed? Wholesale tilting against windmills is over. Campaign literature can now light the first winter fires; and the much shouted at burger can return to straphanging and the comics. Best of all, the tumult has availed but little. Forty five percent of the voters will vote as their grandfathers did, forty five percent will vote as their husbands dictate, and the other misled ten percent will vote intelligently. Yet it is those few who will make of today another interesting episode in the drama of American life...