Word: tumultously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gasps Will, "Oh, thank you, sir." And he proceeds to prove himself such an orderly orderly that the captain compliments him on the condition of the latrine. Will allows that most of the credit belongs to the sergeant who-"He what!" the captain roars, and by the time the tumult has subsided, the sergeant is "a 45-year-old private" who does not respond to Will's heartfelt sympathy...
...restraint. They leaped through the barriers, carried their rifles cocked along the corridors, stormed into the galleries. In their seats the Deputies were motionless, tragically mute. We were isolated from the world, just as the Tauride, Palace was isolated from Petrograd, and Petrograd from Russia. Surrounded by tumult, in the wilderness, we were given over to the will of the triumphant enemy...
...each trying to get votes by speeches filled with threats and defamation mixed with promises and offers of wellbeing; of streets in cities and towns painted and papered to the saturation point with posters designed to incite; of the populace abandoned to discussion and mental struggles, to screaming and tumult." It made a horrifying picture, but Venezuela's dictator was able to reassure his own people last week that they, at any rate, were in no great danger of free political discussion and debate. Instead, he energetically pressed his own no-party, me-or-nothing version of an election...
Laverne Baker, the grand lady of the rhythm world, emerged from the wings in a dress sprayed on by an atomizer. And the tumult shook all gods from their cynical periphery...
...Daughter is none too happy about it all as she has a poor but noble lover. Widow St. Clair is, herself, being courted by the dubious but delightful Sir Peter who doesn't care as long as women and liquor (on the rocks) are free. To add to the tumult, Mrs. St. Clair's long lost brother from Kansas shows up with his wife and lots of socially unaceptable notions. Drama begins when the St. Clair diamonds disappear, and everybody from Peter, to poor but proud, to the butler with the shady record is suspect. In the long run, love...