Word: tumults
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...cried Lightweight Glass as he doubled up one fist, grabbed Middleweight Wheeler by the arm. A wary secretary leaped between them; Senators rushed up to pacify. Mr. Glass, shouting for battle, was thrust into the cloakroom. . . . The tumult died gradually; the Senate went back to business. Both of these thwarted fisticuffers were Democrats...
Personal journalism is not what it used to be. The press is too crowded to afford subtlety, quiet wisdom or even sound brilliance an advantageous setting. The only voices heard above the tumult are the loudspeakers and loudness is usually the mother of mediocrity...
...once a word that lubricated the jaws of the nation. Newspapers screamed it, preachers damned it, Mr. Average Citizen swallowed it and was shocked. That was back in 1923 when the Senate was airing the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills oil scandals of the Harding Administration. Soon the tumult died, the people forgot, and the wheels of justice began to churn ponderously...
...thin red line," " 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy," "Sun comes up like Thunder," "Rag and a bone and a hank o' hair," "Oh East is East, etc.," "The tumult and the shouting dies," "Lest we forget," "The flanneled fools at the wicket, or the muddied oafs at the goals," "Who dies if England Live?" "Sisters under their skins," "The 'eathen in his blindness bows down to wood and stone," "You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din," and many another...
...supreme personalities of entertainment had fulfilled her promise, and Meller, who carries eight golden bracelets as mementos of her great successes, was fully entitled to purchase a ninth golden bangle. Yet the barrier of language and the unfamiliarity of a charm that has fathomless depths but no tumult had obtruded themselves. The audience had been appreciative, engrossed, deeply stirred; but they did not drag her coach home to the hotel...