Word: bedlam
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...valuable bedlam of commercial broadcasting originated in 1920 when a Pittsburgh department store plucked a Westinghouse experimenter from his garage, where he was sending out an occasional phonograph tune, set him up as historic Station KDKA. Radio makers began to multiply like summer flies. Most of them were soon swatted by the proverbial vicissitudes of their industry. Relatively few of the early breed even survived for the cream-jugs of the late 1920's. Still fewer continued to buzz right through Depression...
Symbol of Mother Britain's mighty and today successful struggle to get the upper hand of depression and unemployment, the Royal Mail Steamer Queen Mary, newest pride of the Cunard White Star Line and of the Empire, arrived this week in Manhattan, majestic amid bedlam. The droning, diving, zooming air planes; the squirting fireboats and shrilling sirens were to quietly delighted Britons the perfect foil for what every child in the Empire has been taught for months to call "The Stateliest Ship In Being...
...that he could not miss the last. Speculators were offered $100 and more for a ticket. In Portland, Ore. a music-lover was ready to charter a plane, ily East for the performance. He stayed home, because no amount of money could get him a seat. Inside the Hall bedlam would have been let loose again, except for the little white-haired Maestro. He bowed gravely to his wildly-cheering audience, wheeled on his podium, rapped smartly for attention. Toscanini was giving his last U. S. concert not for acclaim, not for money but for the benefit of the Orchestra...
...none too straight, in fact, it's very winding, and after the fifth depression of the accelerator rubber began to shrick on every curve. "This fellows's a fool," barked the driver of the Chevrolet, "he doesn't know when he's had enough." Suddenly the Ford began a Bedlam of horn-honking. It threw such an unchivalrous and vulgar element into the race that the Chevrolet driver immediately became so vexed that, together with a few bitter remarks, he stuck his arm out the window and rudely motioned for the Ford to pass. And pass he did. But alas...
Certain members of the Music Department are beginning to suspect that the monthly bell bedlam of Lowell House will weaken and crack the tower. Their suspicions, however, have so far failed to crack the calm of the House Janitor...