Word: bedlam
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...Prince Bernhard up to the bridal moment. The Dutch pastor, having performed the marriage with the usual Dutch exchange of rings, remarked to the new Prince Consort of The Netherlands, "I may now address you as Your Royal Highness." Amid cheers which made the whole city of The Hague bedlam, the wedding procession wound its way amid Dutch ohs and ahs at the brilliant cavalcade. Then, after luncheon at the Royal Palace, the Prince Consort & Crown Princess managed the impossible. With the connivance of the world press, the newlyweds, ostensibly bound for Innsbruck, boarded a train at The Hague...
Every Spring Room 3 in the basement of University Hall used to be the nearest thing to bedlam that Harvard had to offer. Freshmen and upperclassmen in anxiety over the rooming situation for the following year or rushing in with last minute selection of courses met in one swirling tide of hubbub...
...Well, as soon as this friend called out 'Rinehart' at the top of his lungs and it had echoed throughout the Yard, the rest of the students picked it up, and within a few minutes the place was a bedlam. Most of the students did not even know who I was, but it caught like a fever and they were hanging out of the windows yelling 'Rinehart' at the top of their lungs. It was good exercise, and I didn't care, but the cry has stuck...
...exchange had a turnover of 7,451,127 shares-most of them priced at only a few cents, but 100% profit is just as good on a cheap stock as on an expensive one. The exchange was a bedlam. With only 20 members, its facilities were swamped. Tickers were ordered from the U. S. so that customers might go to brokers' offices instead of to the exchange to do business. Brokerage became tremendously profitable. Seats on the exchange which sold for $500 when it was organized three years ago were worth $4,000 last December, are now valued around...
...five years now, the Freshman Class has occupied the Yard and have done it generally pretty well. Noise and confusion have molested the precincts of the Yard at times to be sure, but the promised bedlam failed to materialize...