Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Caesar and Cleopatra. The most heavily padded entrance of the season has been made. When the uproar of applause was past, the impression began to soak in that the tumult over the first play in the new Guild Theatre was a trifle premature...
From this time for two hours, with two suspensions, the Chamber was in an uproar. A dozen fist fights ensued between the acrimonious Opposition and the enraged Government Parties. The noise was so appalling that Premier Herriot was twice obliged to leave the tribunal. Ballot boxes were hurled through the air. Peacemakers suffered grievous injuries of a temporary nature. No insult was insulting enough to be hurled at an opponent...
...baseball with the exception of one Billy Hamilton. Cobb is cut to a different last than Sisler. No decorous college graduate he, but a "sandlot" player, a man of fiery mettle. Often-ihc bleachers, true to the tradition of U. S. sportsmanship, have risen in enthusiastic uproar while Cobb stood shoving his jaw-fare nearer and nearer to an umpire's quivering countenance, uttering words whose import could only be guessed by his furious gestures. He, who has rightly been called "the greatest player in baseball," declares that this season will be his last...
...diners with bottles, imitative, upset theirs. Some, lacking bottles, dropped plates. A red-faced individual at a corner table threw a coin to Tcherkassky; a hundred others with coins, catching the wit of this gesture, also hurled their loose change to him. He sang one song, began another. The uproar continued. But Tcherkassky finished his program...
...Chamber President Painlevé had hardly finished his inaugural address, in which he appealed for self-discipline as an aid to him in his presidential capacity, than a first-class uproar broke out. The Government consented to listen to an interpellation on the sardine-packers' strike in Brittany, but the Right Opposition objected and showed their antipathy by banging their desk-lids and shouting. The Left Opposition tried to shout down their opponents across the Chamber and in the ear-splitting din which resulted, Chamber President Painlevé was seen to rise, a pained expression on his face...