Word: bedlam
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...spirits rose as Chinese G.H.Q. announced that near Teian, 100 miles from Hankow, some 10,000 Japanese had been "wiped out in a four-day battle greater than Taierhchwang." This was not subsequently confirmed, but within an hour after the announcement the previously silent streets of Hankow became a bedlam of exploding firecrackers amid which Chinese newsboys hopped about selling Independence Day "Victory Extras...
...garishly-lighted station-master's room in Albany, whence a bus had finally churned its way. Amid the bedlam of ringing bells and frantically shouting railroaders, the young assistant parried the thrusts of angry passengers. "But it's an Act of God. Yes, we're sorry you were stalled thirty hours, but we can't help it. This office can't do anything. Jack, number five will proceed at ten miles per hour beyond Schenectady. You'll have to see the Passenger Agent. But I've told you we can't locate him. Number Seven to Chicago: two coaches, diner...
...Klondike's" temperature rose to more than 150° F. in the "treatment cells, bedlam raged. Tearing their clothes off, gasping for breath, the tortured men roared and screamed for hours. When guards came with breakfast the third day, they found 21 of the prisoners unconscious, four (two in each of two cells) dead on the floor-bruised, gouged, discolored, parboiled...
...authorize Secretary Hoover to make individual wave length assignments, that stations were free to pick their own wave lengths, to wander at will through the frequencies. More than 200 stations jumped into the air in less than a year, mingled their random signals with the howls of heterodynes, raised bedlam that once more provoked a storm of pained and angry protest from listeners...
With violinists warming up on "In the Still of the Night," members of the Radcliffe Dance Group practicing in the corners, and a gallery of Bellboys scrambling for seats, the Lowell House Common Room is a bedlam a few minutes before eight these evenings. But when Courtland Canby '37, 1G lays aside his pipe, sheds his coat, and raps for attention the fifty-odd people assembled there get down to the business of rehearsing for Purcell's opera, "Dido and Aeneas...