Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Monroe imported $60,000 worth of "heavy substantial furniture" from France. President John Quincy Adams caused a public uproar by installing a billiard table. The North Portico was finished by President Jackson, whose inaugural party for the Plain People nearly wrecked the interior...
...grief (the notice was headed 'Printed Matter' and contained the statements that my contribution to the art of beautiful letters was only a record of "what the Well Dressed Man will--write") and considering also that the Advocate's offices immediately adjoin my own tenement and that nightly the uproar occasioned by their service of the muse (consisting mostly of sounds of breaking glass and a song about a certain William, a nautical man) ascend to interrupt my musings upon the good, the beautiful and the true, considering, as I say, these prejudical circumstances, it might be expected that...
...pineapples and racketeers. True, there were four bombings as the election approached, but they did not cause much damage and nobody bothered about them. They did not count. In Chicago an election means fun, excitement. Calliopes in the crowded Loop, red-fire in Grant Park, an almost continuous uproar in the Black Belt; 1,000 stump orators stumping, spouting, shouting on sidewalks, in public halls, in theatres, in real theatres where they have real plays. It is amazing that nobody has ever become excited about the sidewalks of Chicago, which last week were certainly the most excitable sidewalks...
Honest students spied them, snatched away their papers, accused examiners of tolerating the fraud. So great was the uproar that the police were summoned. The next day carefully searched and supervised students resumed their examinations in peace...
...0nomatopoetic French word for uproar, hurly-burly...