Word: bedlam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that he could not miss the last. Speculators were offered $100 and more for a ticket. In Portland, Ore. a music-lover was ready to charter a plane, ily East for the performance. He stayed home, because no amount of money could get him a seat. Inside the Hall bedlam would have been let loose again, except for the little white-haired Maestro. He bowed gravely to his wildly-cheering audience, wheeled on his podium, rapped smartly for attention. Toscanini was giving his last U. S. concert not for acclaim, not for money but for the benefit of the Orchestra...
...none too straight, in fact, it's very winding, and after the fifth depression of the accelerator rubber began to shrick on every curve. "This fellows's a fool," barked the driver of the Chevrolet, "he doesn't know when he's had enough." Suddenly the Ford began a Bedlam of horn-honking. It threw such an unchivalrous and vulgar element into the race that the Chevrolet driver immediately became so vexed that, together with a few bitter remarks, he stuck his arm out the window and rudely motioned for the Ford to pass. And pass he did. But alas...
Certain members of the Music Department are beginning to suspect that the monthly bell bedlam of Lowell House will weaken and crack the tower. Their suspicions, however, have so far failed to crack the calm of the House Janitor...
...diffident and bespectacled Secretary of State for Colonies, young Malcolm MacDonald, both he and his father Ramsay MacDonald having now won seats in by-elections after losing out in the general election. MacDonald Senior escorted MacDonald Junior in to take the oath and sign the roll last week amid bedlam from Labor's benches...
Yesterday's sleet storm seemed to put increased vigor into Lowell House's monthly bell-bedlam. Caring neither for sleet nor student, Arthur T. Merrit, Eliot House music tutor, climbed to his tower station accompanied by several assistants. Two of the merrymakers stood under the 14-ton bass bell and another at the chains and footpedal operating the remaining 16 bells...