Word: bedlam
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...Then came the event which provoked a bedlam of joy. It was a message of greeting from President Roosevelt...
...crowd, sensing a pennant victory, came equipped for a celebration. Horns, large tin cans, cow bells, and other noise makers assisted the vocal chords. And in the ninth inning when the score board flashed New York's defeat, giving the pennant to the Cards, bedlam broke loose...
...Vagabond stirred uneasily in his cell in Mem Hall tower. What was this noise that broke in on his reverie? What bedlam dared intrude on his solitude? Outside, on Kirkland Street, on Broadway, on Mass Avenue the clatter of the American Railway Express, the long-distance moving vans and the less shiny, but far more serviceable vans of local concerns broke the silence of a dismal September...
...thousand more Chinese made bedlam as General Tsai was driven through narrow Chinatown streets plastered with his portrait in vivid yellows and greens. "There never was anything like it!" said Detective Daniel Devoti of the Chinatown squad. "They are giving General Tsai a bigger welcome than they gave 37 years ago to the great Viceroy Li Hung- chang...
...Dictator withdrew for the first of their two-man talks alone in German. Two days later the German Foreign Office experts were complaining: "The Chancellor has apparently no need of our advice. We have never had such a vacation. Everything is between them." The two days passed in a bedlam of parades and pageantry as Venice gradually learned to shout "Viva Hitler!" By night there were fireworks and torch-lighted gondola parades, but again and again those two-man talks in German. Baffled correspondents were reduced to cooking up tales that Hitler and Mussolini were playing a game of vanity...