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...Japan, too, the American-language craze had caught everybody from streetcar conductors, who crammed between corners, to the hat-check boy at the swank Dai Ichi Hotel, who couldn't keep his hats straight for studying an English grammar. In Tokyo a standard Oxford Dictionary would get you $33 last week, and two made-in-Japan, slang dictionaries that out-defined the Danish version had topped 40,000 copies apiece...
...paying guest. woman appeared at a seventh-floor window, threw out her small son, her smaller daughter, then jumped herself. Another woman leaped feet first (as they all did), hit a fireman who was carrying a woman down a ladder and swept them with her to the street. The craze spread, and body after body hurtled down, hitting with dull, leaden sounds. As they fell, slowly it seemed, the jumpers trailed long, long cries...
Some of the best of the loud bands that long ago had learned to mix swing and sweet would obviously survive the change, just as Guy Lombardo's creamy on-the-melody music had stayed on the top all through swing's craze. In Los Angeles Woody Herman and his noisy "Aw, Your Father's Moustache" brand of music was the big draw. But the word was spreading: the crowds wanted their music muted...
Fashionable Parisians, convinced that inner lavements purified the complexion and produced good health, took as many as three or four enemas a day. The craze was often burlesqued on the stage, notably by Moliere, and it was a lively topic of elegant discourse in the salons...
...association found little rhyme or reason in the doctors' decisions.* Dr. Bakwin seconds the association's conclusion that the current craze for tonsil removal "represents in the main a useless ' expenditure of time, effort and money." Further, he considers it responsible for many cases of pneumonia, bulbar poliomyelitis, deaths from overdoses of anesthetics (80 a year) and children's neuroses...