Word: bedlams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...looking to reputation and profits through wins in the No. 1 U. S. dog show. Now dogs and handlers lolled together in the cramped boxes, panting in unison. But there was still enough spirit left in the terriers and high-strung German Shepherds to keep the basement a yapping bedlam...
Instantly the auditorium was a bedlam. Booing, shouting, shoving spectators tore chairs from the floor, heaved them into the ring, pulled down draperies, ripped out telephones. The riot lasted for a full half hour, ended only when Browning and Savoldi decided to defy the curfew and return to the mat. After another half hour, Savoldi flew feet first at Browning's chin (the "drop-kick"), missed, crashed on his back. Browning fell on him, won the match. Next day the Commission formally repealed its curfew order...
Referring to the offices of NRA as "the bedlam that they have over there," President Henry Ingraham Harriman of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce observed in Washington: "About six months ago, [businessmen] were 100% for [the NRA] ;' about three months ago there was much less unanimity; and I know of no representative group of businessmen today in which some do not question the whole program...
...Sept. 11). Tipped off to expect trouble, the National's U. S. Manager, W. P. Taylor, and his three assistants went out to a late dinner about 10 p. m. and did not return. Shooting started next dawn. Before sundown the entire vicinity was to be a bloody bedlam...
...Chinese cricket-lover lives in a bedlam. Several rooms of his house are stacked high with jars of crickets. Exhaustive manuals tell him what to feed each species at each meal (sick crickets get a special diet of red waterbugs...