Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trial had ended riotous with wisecracks. The courtroom had bulged with spectators. In the corridors countless more pressed toward the door for the free show, while in the streets about the Federal Building thousands stood to wait for the verdict. The jury's "not guilty" loosed a raucous uproar of approval. The crowd "gave the little girl a great big hand" (her cliche...
...Authoress Lowell told of the burning and sinking of the Minnie A. Caine off the coast of Australia some seven years ago, she swimming three miles to a light-ship with a family of kittens clinging with their claws to her firm flesh. What started last week's uproar was the discovery of the Minnie A. Caine, lying placidly at anchor in Oakland Harbor, Calif. She has been there for the past two years. Fact-finders were able to show that Joan Lowell and her father had been aboard the Minnie A. Caine about 15 months instead...
...somewhat absent from the trials of the annual University tournament which were held last night; but all the contestants went at each other with murder in their eyes, and all in all furnished some exciting three-round bouts which kept the gallery of 300 people in a constant uproar. Seven matches were staged; the winners, together with those who drew byes yesterday, will square off in the finals on Thursday to decide the championships...
...height of the uproar, with both sides deadlocked, the federal gunboat Progresso steamed into the harbor and furiously pumped shells in the direction of the rebel lines...
...ventilating apparatus in the upper lecturer room and the Library is so loud as to prove a distraction in the latter and even to drown out a low-voiced lecturer in the former, while the air in the upstairs room seems to benefit not at all from the uproar when a large course such as Fine Arts 9a is in session...