Word: tumultously
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...knew it! One just can't evade it. We mean all of the hullabaloo that has been raised during the past year or so. And Ursula Parrott has brought it all to us in The Tumult and the Shouting (Longmans, Green, $2.00), along with the revelation that it all started way back in 1877 in a famous Boston family history. There Ought to be a Law against such things, you may feel, but William Seagle thinks that there ought to be a law against useless laws, and he tells you why in his new book (Macaulay, $1.25), a compilation...
...TUMULT AND THE SHOUTING- Ursula Parrott - Longmans, Green ($2.50). "My big book," says Authoress Parrott (ExWife, Strangers May Kiss...
...swells instantly to a tumultuous roar which becomes ever louder as the minutes wear by. On the balcony the little man throws back his head, swings himself to and fro with both hands on the rail, rolls his eyes, and makes frightening grimaces. Gradually 1the tumult subsides, and Mussolini begins to speak...
...problems raised for Chicago will be far deeper than plans for an appropriate cortege, or for a day of universal mourning. Tumult and shouting can only defer the day when she will have to scan anew the list of aspirants to her highest office. Charles E. Merriam will, somewhat more impatiently after these twenty years, demand again that a government now impecunious must pass to the expert, and to the honest; and at the University there will be reawakened vistas of regulatory grandeur. Clicking receivers will carry tentative promises of patronage to the Mayor's revived political opponents...
...listened gleefully to stockholders shouting disapproval of the management. Saying they understated their case, Chairman Straus summed up: "It is not only the Manhattan situation which is rotten, but I can go further and say that Interborough [Rapid Transit Co.] itself was born in iniquity." After seven hours of tumult. President Roberts of Manhattan Railway waved his arms in despair, yelled: "The meeting is yours." The Amster group then elected their own board and went home...