Search Details

Word: bedlam (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Bill Jack's plant is not a place where a pin could be heard to drop. It has been described as "a blueprint for bedlam." In the movie, when Jack & Heintz workers arrive on the job, a voice announces over a loudspeaker: "All aboard! Next stop Berlin!" Promptly workers grab their tools, create a strangely realistic din which represents a train leaving a station, putting on steam, finally roaring along at breakneck speed. When workers get down to work, they do so to the crash of jazz-band disks. Girls keep time by wiggling their hips on their stools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Aug. 9, 1943 | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

...Bedlam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 26, 1943 | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

...Bedlam? Yes, but from causes of an entirely different nature than your publication visualizes (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 26, 1943 | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

Running the gamut of Memorial Hall's registration bedlam this morning will be between 500 and 550 new civilian Freshman, first contingent of the Class of '47. With study cards, advisers, preliminary meetings, welcomings, and just getting settled, the new group is in for a busy week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1100 NAVY MEN, 500 NEW FRESHMEN WILL REPORT AT CAMBRIDGE TODAY | 7/1/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Bedlam | 6/28/1943 | See Source »

Previous | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | Next