Word: chaotic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...confidence he gained from ruling in his dream, has been pretty badly mangled on the screen. Matt Moore, able comedian, is miscast, being for one thing several years too old. The twists of character and the strange development of fantasy are lost. The film descends to the vague and chaotic level of slapstick comedy...
...Emperor opened a relief subscription list with a donation of 5,000 yen. The Government and charity organizations distributed bread and rice, quilts and blankets. Next day, on the charred and chaotic wasteland, people began to build their rickety Japanese dwellings...
...those who insist upon every man's right to "indifference", there is no horror greater than the meaningless bombast of college yells. Those chaotic confusions of trills, barks, and sensless syllables arouse, and justly, the disgust of those who hope that college is a breeding ground of intelligent manhood. But is there in the recommendation of the Council any suggestion that such idiocies are to be perpetrated? The present cheer, when efficiently and enthusiastically supported by the stands, resounds majestically within the Stadium and the Bowl. There is no threat against the dignity and strength of the traditional cheer...
...unified control over the Reichstag majority, to put through the Dawes plan and to secure admission into the League. Beyond these foreign questions, the constituent parties of the coalition are hopelessly at loggerheads, and, these presiding problems of international relations once settled, will undoubtedly relapse into the usual chaotic multidivision of Continental politics...
Vanities. The second edition of this revue, which threatens to become an annual, went to press with a great deal of shouting; but when the opening audience read the proofs, their reactions were divided. It was agreed that Earl Carroll had crowded a chaotic beauty into his production that would be hard to match but that his search for mirth and music had been less successful. Joe Cook is again the headlined humorist, but somehow his new material does not make up into so effective a garment of gaiety as did his veteran vaudeville sketches. Sophie Tucker heads the parade...