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Word: bemelmania (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...rolling toward astigmatism. "It never occurred to me," he groans of Lady Elsie Mendl, ". . . that she, poor darling, was relatively destitute. She left a million . . . but it's peanuts, considering her fashion of living, her travels . . . artisans . . . servants . . . hospitality." Too many cosmopolitan sleeping pills, perhaps; but Bemelmania, while still fun, is not nearly as wonderfully crazy as it used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bemelmania | 8/31/1953 | See Source »

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