Word: bedlam
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While the characters sometimes perform with the bedlam logic of a Marx Brothers film, their creator is still the only master of Bemelmanship-the art of not blowing a shimmering literary soap bubble past its bursting point...
...collaboration of Maurice Desvallieres, is exceedingly standard and exceedingly French French farce. This means sex first, but not in the long run foremost. In such goings-on, slapstick and speed become a good deal more important than spice. The bed is only a prop; the actual objective is bedlam...
...recent gathering of Moscow University students, called to discuss the meaning of Not By Bread Alone, some who had evidently learned to think shouted: "Tell us about Hungary and Poland!" Replied the lecturer: "It's irrelevant!" In the ensuing bedlam the Soviet authorities felt they had solved the problem by turning off the lights...
When the news of Anglo-French military action hit Chicago's mammoth Board of Trade, a flood of orders overwhelmed the grain pits, turned them into a bedlam as traders bawled bids and offers. Wheat, corn. rye. cotton, soybeans, lard-just about everything except onions-soared on the prospects of war shortages, sent the Dow-Jones Commodity Futures Index up 1.66 points to 165.79 for the largest one-day advance in 2½ months...
...page boy at the Kansas City convention of 1900, 16-year-old Harry joined full-throat in the bedlam when William Jennings Bryan ("He was one of my heroes") stampeded his second convention with his silver-tongued, silver-oriented (16 oz. of silver to 1 oz. of gold) oratory. In 1924, then a member of the Jackson County Court under the auspices of hard-knuckled Democrat Boss Tom Pendergast, Politician Truman sat with ears growing numb under his crystal-set earphones. He listened to almost every word of the 14-day, 103 -ballot convention in Madison Square Garden (Alabama...