Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stronger-minded friend rescued him. Then came the War, and once or twice it looked as though that would settle Ferdinand's hash. But he came through, with wounds, decorations and a reputation among radicals because he had refused to execute three soldiers. In the turmoil that rocked Vienna after the War Ferdinand moved as a kind of passive Bohemian, passive revolutionary. A monastic soul, he lived among orgiasts and was never shaken; love failed to touch him. His best and only friend, a Jew, became a religious maniac and graduated to an asylum. When Ferdinand went...
...which thousands of Hungarian Legitimists have been awaiting for eight years dawned quietly and set peaceably. Despite last-minute rumors of a projected dash through Switzerland and Austria to seize the throne of Hungary, of imminent riot and turmoil, somebody had evidently decreed that last week was not time for a putsch...
...thanksgiving that peace had been restored. Gradually the world has forgotten the significance of November eleventh, and the joy of victory has given way to the happiness of a day of rest. This is altogether natural. To those who fought, the war has become four years of far off turmoil. For the others it is only a distant memory...
...physical aspects Harvard has been undergoing a great change of late; houses are constantly going up, freshman dormitories clutter the Yard, and a Faculty Club is soon to be opened. Amidst all this masculine turmoil it is pleasant to note that Radcliffe is celebrating her fifty-second year by a new lecture hall...
...still owe a debt to yourselves and to the nation." President Hoover smiled. There was no Hoover-Coolidge hobnobbing. After the Legion speech he proceeded with traffic difficulty to the Hotel Statler where an adulant crowd hustled the President and Mrs. Hoover through the narrow lobby. In the turmoil four policemen gave the "bum's rush" to an officious fellow. He was O. L. Bodenheimer, National Commander of the Legion...