Word: bedlam
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...songs at the City Hall, Prague, Roland Hayes, American Negro tenor (TiME, Oct. 8, Music), gave another concert. His accompanist stated in the German language that the first number would be a Negro song. Up jumped an irate Czech and demanded: " What's become of the Czech language ?" Bedlam was let loose. The pianist repeated the announcement in English; the noise and confusion grew worse. Finally, Roland Hayes himself came forward and politely reminded the objectors that their money was waiting for them at the boxoffice. The intractable Czechs took the hint and departed...
Once during the revelry a married Parliamentarian, no doubt attracted by the tinkling of glass, strode into the room. Instantly bedlam was let loose. " Bah! Blahhh ! Turn him out! Get out! " arose from the assembled celibates. The " hapless " benedict fled...
Radio is transforming the otherwise harmless air into a veritable bucket-shop bedlam, with twenty-one thousand transmitting stations between the Great Lakes and the Rio Grande. The government itself has begun to display distress signals. The Kellogg-White Federal Radio Control Bill has been introduced to bring some sort of order out of the present chaos of jazz-bands, sermons, crop reports, and sporting syndicates running simultaneously on the same wave lengths...
...does the new club system on which the Union is run differ from the old?" is the query put forward by those who have known the building in the days of its dingy quiet three years ago and those who have seen it also the seat of bedlam while used as a general dining hall during...
...scientists have been trying to solve for several years. Consequently the results of Dean Sabine's repeated experiments have been noted by many large industries and banks over the country. In one typical instance, the general offices of a Chicago packer employing four hundred were turned from bedlam into workrooms of more than usual quiet...