Word: bedlam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last Thursday, at 5:08 p.m., bedlam broke loose in Brooklyn. Staid citizens dashed out of their homes and shops, yelling "We're in, we're in!" Housewives stood on their stoops, beating dishpans; kids tooted tin horns; barkeeps opened their taps, "set 'em up on the house...
What would U.S. women do without silk stockings? Some predicted that they might copy their English sisters, paint their bare legs stocking-color (see cut). A hopeful note in the panicky bedlam was a report of a new stocking made of cotton mesh which "wears like iron" and "looks very sheer...
...motorman, white-faced and trembling, fearing he had killed not one man but three, raced back. The platform was a bedlam of pushing, screaming people. A voice, embarrassed and gruff, came up from the tracks: "We're all right. Get the train out of here." Inch by inch the train was pulled out, the two rescuers heaved their charge, unconscious but barely scratched, to the platform, then they tried to sneak off into the crowd, found they had to leave their names with the police. One was Frank Serrano, a short, husky longshoreman. The other: William O'Dwyer...
...When I came here Byberry was a medieval pest house. It's now the equal of an 18th-Century insane asylum. It's a disgrace to any community or government which calls itself civilized." Without more ado, he told the world what was wrong with his Bedlam-the most famous of all 18th-Century asylums, which London regarded as a sort of zoo and visited for amusement...
...House, as usual, was not so staid: it resembled a street scene more than a legislative body. In a constant babble-bedlam, members took the oath and went through the routine of organizing. On one side of the centre aisle sat 162 Republicans, two less than last year; on the other, 268 Democrats. Only time there was silence was when Texas' Sam Rayburn, elected Speaker by virtue of the Democratic majority, rose to speak. Rayburn declared...