Word: bedlams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...police guarding banks, major business offices, electric power stations and waterworks, tension relaxed sufficiently for Premier Saito to give a party. Out of their limousine stepped U. S. Ambassador & Mrs. Joseph Clark Grew, he a trifle lame and slightly deaf. Just as they reached the Premier's door bedlam broke loose. Japanese police with drawn pistols surrounded the Grews. Others brandished swords and screeched. "These people," someone shouted, "are assassins...
...Widener closes at 6 P.M. those who are athletic or earning their way in the afternoon will be deprived of both a necessary source for reference books and, for some, a welcome retreat from the bedlam of house and home. If the change is based on the supposition that no one studies in Widener either at night or on Sunday, it could be proved that the supposition is false. It is true that at intermittent seasons the libraries are practically abandoned. Well could they be closed in those periods. However, as every one knows, the beginning of the year, reading...
Into this bedlam now trotted a bunch of steers. The bulls charged, goring the steers at first but gradually making friends with them, quieting down in the company of fellow cattle. Then the steers led the bulls out to pens under the arena...
...records. At 200 mi. only one of the standard cars, high rated for stamina, was among the first ten. In the last half they came up, finished third (Studebaker), fifth (Hupmobile) and sixth (Studebaker). But already down Indianapolis' 2½ mile-long brick oval, in the dust, heat, bedlam and gasoline fumes, a businesslike little car, fat in the middle, had buzzed busily past the finish line in the record time of 4 hr. 48 min. 3.79 sec., driven by Fred Frame, built by Harry Hartz and Harry A. Miller. Driver Frame won $20,000 first prize money, about...
...Bedlam Reigns As Walker Testifies," "Jimmy's Wisecracks Convulse Audience," "Crowds Cheer Walker On Street." With these headlines the newspapers record the popular reaction to the examination of the Mayor of New York on charges of graft and incompetence. Apparently the greater part of the people of New York are so accustomed to the Tammany Tiger that they prefer the smell of the beast to clean air. On the basis of such reports it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the average American has less self-respect, as a citizen, than men who live under other democratic governments. With...