Word: bedlam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond stirred uneasily in his cell in Mem Hall tower. What was this noise that broke in on his reverie? What bedlam dared intrude on his solitude? Outside, on Kirkland Street, on Broadway, on Mass Avenue the clatter of the American Railway Express, the long-distance moving vans and the less shiny, but far more serviceable vans of local concerns broke the silence of a dismal September...
...thousand more Chinese made bedlam as General Tsai was driven through narrow Chinatown streets plastered with his portrait in vivid yellows and greens. "There never was anything like it!" said Detective Daniel Devoti of the Chinatown squad. "They are giving General Tsai a bigger welcome than they gave 37 years ago to the great Viceroy Li Hung- chang...
...Dictator withdrew for the first of their two-man talks alone in German. Two days later the German Foreign Office experts were complaining: "The Chancellor has apparently no need of our advice. We have never had such a vacation. Everything is between them." The two days passed in a bedlam of parades and pageantry as Venice gradually learned to shout "Viva Hitler!" By night there were fireworks and torch-lighted gondola parades, but again and again those two-man talks in German. Baffled correspondents were reduced to cooking up tales that Hitler and Mussolini were playing a game of vanity...
...SMALL WORLD-Walter Bodin & Burnet Hershey-Coward-McCann ($3). In the 18th Century it was quite the thing to visit Bedlam, London's lunatic asylum, to have a hearty laugh at its mad inmates. Twentieth-Centuryites are more squeamish, but they still pay good money to circus sideshows to see grown men and women whose under-functioning pituitary glands have made midgets. For those who cannot or will not attend such freak shows, Authors Bodin & Hershey have written a book that answers all conceivable questions about these monstrous mites. Midgets are correctly proportioned miniature copies of adults, usually between...
...floor of the ancient rambling London Stock Exchange was bedlam all last week. Brokers shoved and shouted as the boom in West African gold stocks spread to other issues. Lights burned brightly in the City (financial district) until midnight as clerks toiled over books. Iron and steel shares were up on news that March steel production was 829,700 tons, highest since the October 1929 peak. Government securities soared in anticipation of this week's budget announcements. A speculator named K. H. Williams was reported to have made $2,500,000 in West Africans alone. London's financial...