Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exercises in chapel or not, as they please, and but few of them do go. That he said, was a better state of affairs than the one existing at Yale, where the chapel attendance is large, because it is obligatory and absence is penalized; for there, he declared, "the turmoil during the service is terrible...
...Compulsory chapel would be as distasteful to the officers of Harvard as to the students. Perhaps if I were running a preparatory school I should have chapel made compulsory, but not in a college. At Yale the turmoil during the service is terrible. For a popular preacher the best that can be expected is a general semi-quiet reading of newspapers. And that is because of compulsory chapel...
...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...
...plot tangles two adjacent families in domestic turmoil because the prize rooster of the one feeds furtively upon the prize onions of the other. A capable cast fumbles hopelessly with the awkward assignment of material...
Amelita Galli-Curci continues to issue aphorisms in protesting her determination (TIME, Nov. 26) to abandon the Chicago Civic Opera. Her last : "An artist cannot give of her best if there are turmoil, bickering, quarreling. Even a street sweeper is shown consideration if he sweeps well. I have been shown none...