Word: bedlam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Attempting to speak next, Conservative Solicitor General Sir Donald Somervell provoked bedlam by opening with the words "You have just listened to a great speech by a great...
Seats at Milan's La Scala sold for as high as $38 apiece one night last week. Black-shirted Fascists peppered the brimming opera audience. When a thick-set old man showed himself in the orchestra pit the whole house broke into a bedlam of cheers. "Evviva, evviva Mascagni...
Bland amid Teuton bedlam was petite Miss Margot Vagi. She let other people explain that, although Japanese, she was a child of six living in the Saar in 1919 when the Treaty of Versailles took the Saar provisionally from Germany, handed it over to the League of Nations as trustee until 1935. Though Miss Yagi scarcely remembers the Saar and now lives in New York, her plebiscite qualifications are impeccable. Anyone who was a Saarlander in 1919 may vote. Disenfranchised are Saarlanders of later vintage, even though they may have lived in the Saar uninterruptedly since 1920, may have heavy...
...Then came the event which provoked a bedlam of joy. It was a message of greeting from President Roosevelt...
...crowd, sensing a pennant victory, came equipped for a celebration. Horns, large tin cans, cow bells, and other noise makers assisted the vocal chords. And in the ninth inning when the score board flashed New York's defeat, giving the pennant to the Cards, bedlam broke loose...