Word: bedlam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Philip Sousa III (grandson of the late, great bandmaster John Philip Sousa) has written one of those hilarious life-with-father stories in which the day-to day doings of a respectable U.S. family suggest a quiet hour in bedlam...
Bill Jack's plant is not a place where a pin could be heard to drop. It has been described as "a blueprint for bedlam." In the movie, when Jack & Heintz workers arrive on the job, a voice announces over a loudspeaker: "All aboard! Next stop Berlin!" Promptly workers grab their tools, create a strangely realistic din which represents a train leaving a station, putting on steam, finally roaring along at breakneck speed. When workers get down to work, they do so to the crash of jazz-band disks. Girls keep time by wiggling their hips on their stools...
...Bedlam...
...Bedlam? Yes, but from causes of an entirely different nature than your publication visualizes (TIME, June...
Running the gamut of Memorial Hall's registration bedlam this morning will be between 500 and 550 new civilian Freshman, first contingent of the Class of '47. With study cards, advisers, preliminary meetings, welcomings, and just getting settled, the new group is in for a busy week...