Word: tumults
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...When the tumult was loudest, Senator "Jim" Watson of Indiana, premier politician of the Republican Party, rose to make the first speech he has made in months. He tried to quiet the tumult by "explaining" the President's letter. It was not directed at the Senate, but at Mr. Pinchot, said he. The explanation was weak and failed to explain...
Meanwhile, Premier Poincaré was noticed to be "strained and nervous"; MM. Daudet and Magne, responsible for the tumult, remained in safety in the upper rows, cool, calm and collected despite the taunts of laches (cowards, cravens) from the crowded galleries...
...more prosperous of them, have gone their own way. But the indomitable Eric Satie (who founded the "Six") has formed a new group of other ambitious ones. This he calls the "Four," and it is they who are providing the excitements. They gave a concert which provoked the usual tumult of plaudits and curses in the audience...
...that the tumult and shouting over Mr. Camp's all-American or all-Yale eleven has died is an appropriate time to call attention to the fact that Yale furnished the model after which modern colleges, including Harvard, have been formed...
...does not mean that the Crown should act arbitrarily and without advice of responsible Ministers, but it does mean that the Crown is not bound to take the advice of particular Ministers to put its subjects to the tumult and turmoil of a series of general elections so long as it can find other Ministers who are prepared to give it a trial...