Word: bedlam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Well, as soon as this friend called out 'Rinehart' at the top of his lungs and it had echoed throughout the Yard, the rest of the students picked it up, and within a few minutes the place was a bedlam. Most of the students did not even know who I was, but it caught like a fever and they were hanging out of the windows yelling 'Rinehart' at the top of their lungs. It was good exercise, and I didn't care, but the cry has stuck...
...exchange had a turnover of 7,451,127 shares-most of them priced at only a few cents, but 100% profit is just as good on a cheap stock as on an expensive one. The exchange was a bedlam. With only 20 members, its facilities were swamped. Tickers were ordered from the U. S. so that customers might go to brokers' offices instead of to the exchange to do business. Brokerage became tremendously profitable. Seats on the exchange which sold for $500 when it was organized three years ago were worth $4,000 last December, are now valued around...
...five years now, the Freshman Class has occupied the Yard and have done it generally pretty well. Noise and confusion have molested the precincts of the Yard at times to be sure, but the promised bedlam failed to materialize...
...this, furious uproar burst from both sides of the House. Unable to still its bedlam, the Speaker got up from the chair and by stalking out suspended the session. Twenty minutes later he stalked back to ask suspension of the Independent Labor Party's Buchanan & Campbell Stephen. This was voted, 248-to-53. Home Secretary Sir John Simon resumed his interrupted speech, and all seemed about to go off smoothly when Frederick Seymour Cocks of the Labor Party rose to face Sir John and declare in calm, measured tones: "This Right Honorable Gentleman we all know...
...Fresh bedlam broke at this but the Speaker grimly got a vote of 262-to-11 suspending Mr. McGovern, who by this time had called King Edward a ''despicable individual" who was stingy with his mother Queen Mary. Tempers passed the boiling mark and His Majesty's Loyal Opposition started shouting, "Baby Starvers!" and "Dirty Rats!" at His Majesty's Government as Scot McGovern walked out past Sir John Simon snarling at the impassive Home Secretary, "Everybody knows you're a liar...