Word: bedlam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Almost immediately," Rinehart said, "the Yard became a bedlam as the shouts rose into a chant, and the cry caught the fancy of the undergraduates who had been wearied by examinations and were wanting some way to relieve the precommencement tension." But John Rinehart spoke too late. He only added his version, which was officially recorded as truth in Samuel Eliot Morison's "Three Centuries of Harvard," to the original and more dramatic story...
Rinehart said that he was in his room in the spring of 1900 when friends began calling him from the walk below. He ignored the cries until Frank Simmonds, a freshman in Matthews, joined the shouting. "Almost immediately," Rinehart said, "the Yard became a bedlam as the shouts rose into a chant, and the cry caught the fancy of the undergraduates...
Last week the scene-Paris' Theatre des Champs-Elysees-and the principals were the same as at that uproarious premiere of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring in 1913, and again there was bedlam. But this time the composer stood in his box, bathed in spotlight glare and the audience's acclaim, clasping his hands together like a victorious boxer. The tohu-bohu did not abate until Stravinsky marched onstage to buss Conductor Monteux on both cheeks. Said beaming Pierre Monteux: "There was just as much noise the last time, but of a different tonality...
...last week's meeting, everything was on the up & up. When the first hound cleared the final obstacle and streaked into the homestretch, the "catchers," i.e., owners and handlers, began whooping up a strictly legal bedlam, whistling shrilly and waving scarves to guide the hounds across the finish line. The winner, and current favorite for the H.T.A. championship: a limpid-eyed, three-year-old dog named Ravensbarrow, whose Lancashire farmer owner, Roger Hudson, proudly collected a poor man's purse...
Exam-time was no bedlam at Princeton this year as the Tiger Administrative Board cracked down on an ancient and honorable Nassau tradition--the traditional "11 o'clock break" which has been usually noted by the frequent explosion of fire crackers...