Word: tumult
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Richmond is a town flowing with charm and sentiment. Last week the Confederate flag was flying on Monument Avenue, and the town was alive with scoldings and whisperings. John Drinkwater's Robert E. Lee had just played to generous audiences in the capital of the South, and the tumult and the shouting had not died. Protests came. Lee had not been so stout. His beard was silky. It was not bristly. Historical events were not thus and so. In the midst of this fluttering and chittering, I sought out the lovely old frame house where Ellen Glasgow lives...
...noisy disturbance, tumult, or trouble. Originally Cambridge, now universal. Seventy years ago it was written ROUE which would indicate a French origin, a profligate or disturber of the peace...
...tumult and the shouting would savor not a little of the ridiculous if it were not so ominous in its potential results. France has not necessarily committed a hostile act: in her own official words, she is merely sending "a mission of engineers and functionaries" to supervise details of carrying out treaty terms, and nothing more. But the magic circle has been broken. With the spell lifted, there is no foreseeing...
...course at a late hour comes an appeal from an unexpected friend of the family; she usually wants a nice quiet room near the Campus, not a boarding house; nor too expensive, where she can get her meals comfortably. The Juniors and the rest depart, "the tumult and the shouting die", the Senior is left alone in his glory and he dare not forget...
...tumult and the shouting of the war have died away. Tales of stark daring fall on ears that have heard hundreds of such tales before. The seamen of the "Suicide Squadron" will not get, and doubtless do not expect, the welcome that greeted those who returned earlier. Yet the world will be eternally, though silently, grateful to those men who, forsaking the paths of safety and even the comparative ease of showing bravery in the heat of battle, have quietly gone about their hazardous task. Theirs, unassuming and unadvertised, is the highest glory...