Word: berserker
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...your attention an editorial entitled "In a Pullman," in your magazine issue of May 11 in which you say, after referring to the Pullman porter as the factotum of the car and his trustworthiness: "The necessity for this trustworthiness was evident last week when a Pullman porter went berserk on a Montreal-bound New York Central train...
...Negro called George who will do anything he can to make railroad journeys pleasant, comfortable, safe. He is the factotum of a confined and temporary world and his trustworthiness is part of the national credo. The necessity for this trustworthiness was evident last week when a Pullman porter went berserk on a Montreal-bound New York Central train...
Last week, Sidney Franklin, Brooklyn matador, home from Spain for a vaudeville engagement (see p. 18), told a New York Evening Post newsman that bulls do not go berserk when they see red. Said he, "That is nonsense. . . . The bull charges a moving object. . . . The matador uses a red cape for esthetic reasons-it will not show bloodstains...
...tales about his parents, he kills the uncle, is tried, convicted, sentenced to death. Later the sentence is commuted to life imprisonment. The long years in prison are made livable by the dreams in which Mimsey visits him. One night she fails to come; Mimsey is dead. Peter goes berserk, attacks a warden, is committed to an insane asylum. Before he dies Mimsey comes to him again in the guise of an old woman. He meets Death happily...
...report attempts the impossible in its striving for generalizations on football. Its attendant evils are largely endemic throughout the East, yet we are fully aware that the Middle and Far West have gone berserk over the sport. The futility of classifying Harvard and Princeton in the motley group of colleges and universities guilty of proselyting and commercialism is a case in point. It is regrettable that these two universities have been denied the first flush of exoneration that it was Yale's good fortune to receive, but their convincing refutation of the charges which were leveled against them...