Word: tumultously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political campaign is a matter of years-not weeks or months. Long before the public hears the tumult and the shouting, the preliminary buildup has been under way ... I, and several other people who were close to the Governor [F. D. Roosevelt of New York], had been pondering over his chances to be the party standard-bearer in 1932 ever since his first election to the gubernatorial chair...
Arriving in Washington for a radio-TV appearance, Tammany Hall Boss Carmine De Sapio avoided the tumult and the shouting, kept mostly to himself until time to go to the studio. Then, reluctantly, and only under the nagging of Meet the Press Panelist Lawrence Spivak, De Sapio made news that set Democratic party lines to buzzing across the nation...
...Sabbath rings out grandly on the record, as if tolled by some huge bronze tongue within a spire, and the room fills with a sweet Welsh tumult...
...occasionally be distinguished. Among them: Sarah Bernhardt, who sounds like a harp seraphic tuned to the emotional level of Mother Machree; E. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe, who coo as ponderously as a pair of 200-lb. doves. In "If I'm Elected . . ." ($4.98), Heritage caught a tumult of political echoes in what appears to have been an ear trumpet. Teddy Roosevelt is here with his high-keyed whinny, and William Jennings Bryan with the sound of a tired old tuba as he bup-bups his famous last words of the "Cross of Gold" speech...
...Tumult and the Shouting, Granny Rice's autobiography, which appeared last fall, shortly after his death at 73, has been near the top of the bestseller list for 20 weeks. An odd kind of personal history, it is all about others, the heroes he worshiped. It is a rambling book, tumbled about with scraps of Granny's syndicated verse-it used to be said that he was the only man in the U.S. who could wire a poem collect. There are also recollections of college days at Vanderbilt. But mostly, the book is packed with nostalgic stories that...