Word: tumults
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Less expensive are The Seven(a haven for crew cuts and madras skirts at the base of Beacon Hill); the Rathskeller. (beer, tumult, and cameraderie on Commonwealth Avenue); the go-it-alone joints along Washington St., notably the Palace (where you can bring a date during the week and emerge unscathed), the Novelty Bar, and the Golden Nugget...
...most acclaimed new actress in Britain for her performance in the film version of A Taste of Honey. Director Tony Richardson (Look Back in Anger), passing up all the established stars who wanted to do the part, put an ad in the paper and submitted to a tumult of unknowns. He picked Rita and drew from her a performance that moved critics on both sides of the Atlantic, and won for her the British film industry's award for the most promising newcomer of the year plus an equity in the six-way split of the Best Acting award...
...hundred freshman in Holworthy, Thayer, and Stoughton Halls responded to the HSA goody man's cry of "Food!" with a tumult of their own last night. Yelling from windows and beaming two blinding spotlights on the salesman, the hungry Yardlings descended on the little red wagon en masse. Five of the eager eaters were relieved of their bursar's cards...
...single speech. He had much more to say to the ladies, among them the beautiful Duchess of Rutland, a widow twelve years his senior. Annoyed one night that he was separated from the duchess, Paget set fire to some gunpowder in the house where she was sleeping. In the tumult that followed, he managed to whisk her off to a nearby hayloft. The war with Napoleon was just what Paget's exuberant spirits needed, and he whipped the British cavalry into a crack fighting force. He was watching his men smash the French at Waterloo, standing next...
From Cannes to Calais, he has caused tumult and bloodshed. Hoods in Paris, inspired by the sounds from his lips, tore three subway cars apart in his honor. But the words that provoked riot and rampage were not, as one might expect, Algerian battle cries. They were "itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini," sung by Johnny Hallyday, France's first and only authentic rock 'n' roller, the Elvis Presley of Thither Gaul...