Word: bedlam
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Last week that business was a bedlam of deals, counterdeals and rumors. Over all the excitement hung the invasion threat of Marshall Field's department-store millions. He had stumbled on what book men have pondered for a decade: that by publishing's relatively modest standards, there is big money in cheap, mass-distributed books...
...wave of denunciations swept Paris. A single denunciation by one or more persons was enough to effect an arrest. Concentration camps were a bedlam. Gaullist police tried to establish order, weed out the unquestionably innocent...
...Bedlam (Cont...
...MacMurray can sally forth to negotiate for an important government priority. The only way they can get lodgings is by masquerading as a butler and cook. They settle in the house of Roland Young and his WAC-officer wife and proceed to turn it into a veritable castle of bedlam. The subsequent scenes are exceedingly funny and, combined with a fast start, label this as a picture to be seen if possible...
Jean puts showmanship into her work. In a realm of slacks, grease-coated sweaters and tin hats, she scrambles up & down hull scaffoldings in swank feminine regalia. In the bedlam where tankers, invasion craft and baby flattops are put together she is "Hiyah, Jeannie" or "Hello, Journal.''' At the Albina yards she got another name-"The Hat." The hat is a high-crowned mink job, which she made herself...