Word: craze
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...advance of his visit. After much difficulty, with the aid of other letters in his possession, he succeeded in dispossessing the minds of the brethren of their first impressions, and took his seat as a member. But they kept a bright lookout on him all the while, lest the craze should get the better...
...nice young men of London have hit upon a new craze. Labouchere, of Truth, says: "I observed a young man with unmistakable rogue upon his cheeks. I am told that the fashion of making up the complexion is by no means unknown among our gilded youth...
...many of the college journals of last term we saw the statement that "Oxford caps are worn at Williams." True, the "mortar-board" craze had its run here; but as is general in such cases, soon died out. The idea originated in the present junior class, followed immediately by the sophomores. The caps were worn generally during the third term of last year, and somewhat the first of this year; but as winter came on the last of them were quickly called in, and all are now probably consigned to the shelf to remain peacefully among the memorabilia of college...
Just as Louis XVI. loved lock making, so Charles IV. of Spain had a craze for the manufacture of sausages, which he carried on in strict seclusion in a building specially set apart for it. Lady B., a handsome English woman, true to the instincts of Grandmamma Eve, must needs peep in on his most Christian majesty. He detected the fair spy, and punished her by seizing her with his bloody hands and repeatedly kissing...