Word: bedlam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prepared speech, roared: "Since preparing that speech, I have read a vast amount of nonsense about the food crisis. I am tearing mad. . . . They haven't any real farm policy down there in Washington. One word can describe the one big mess they've made: 'Bedlam...
Wolf-Wolfery. For two years the civilian supply issue has been a bedlam compounded of 1) cries of "Wolf!" from civilians and businessmen at every threatened cut; 2) cries of "Shame!" from other civilians and Government men bent on greater war production. The you-can't-do-that-to-me school kept the U.S. wasting precious materials much too long, delayed realistic decisions on how lean the U.S. economy could become. But the you-must-suffer school did equal damage by ignoring the obvious fact that a bedrock economy for the U.S. must be based upon the U.S. standard...
...earth" - without benefit of any priorities whatsoever. But last week as the Big Show boomed into its second jampacked week at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden (prospective gross for the 36-day run: almost $2,000,000), George Smith was calm & collected in the midst of his bedlam. He knows that the circus was always a crazy business...
...Benes or Bedlam. Last week, in Collier's, the Polish Premier turned on Russia with a proposal to enact a federation of small states from the Baltic to the Black Sea, a bloc which would wall off the Soviet Union within its prewar boundaries...
...scared about the Republican Party. I heard so many bitter, raucous, desk-pounding diatribes against the President and the New Deal. Which is all right. . . . But the trouble with the Republican leaders in Congress and such as I found in the more violent wards of the New York bedlam is that they are just ferninsters They are 'agin' everything and 'for' nothing...