Word: mania
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...particularly the big-industry and labor-union privilege and the farmer privilege which the NRA and AAA represented. Ideas of this sort go at a premium. It may even be hoped--now that the Democratic Party has in effect defaulted upon its free-trade principles--that the high tariff mania and its favoritism to special groups may be modified in the interests of consistency and sound economics...
...taken too long a gambling chance for the sake of bluffing her opponents, peace might have been preserved. Author Wolff absolves plain Europeans of all nationalities (except the Serbs) from a desire for war, says: "The bringers of evil were folly, arrogance, stupidity, and the gambler's mania. The fates were not Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos, daughters of Zeus. They were a select company whose names stood at the foot of government decrees, in the official calendars, in the diplomatic sections of the Almanack de Gotha, in the Army Lists, the world's Press lists, the general directories...
...winter sports in the last eight years has been the sudden, inexplicable boom in skiing. Increase in the popularity of skiing has been noticeable ever since the 1932 Winter Olympic Games at Lake Placid, but the boom really started last year. This winter, skiing has suddenly become a nationwide mania. Evidences: In New York, department stores (Saks-Fifth Avenue, Macy's, Altman's, Spalding's) within the past two months have installed indoor ski-slides, covered with borax. Instructors ($2 to $3 an hour) give advice, teach beginners to keep their balance, to perform simple turns...
...collection, which took a number of years to complete, contains books, pamphlets, manuscripts, Acts of Parliament, and other material pertaining to the speculative mania which swept over England in 1711 and reached its peak...
Gambling on football, traditional with undergraduates and alumni, has suddenly become a U. S. mania. Bookmakers, disgusted to find their customers losing interest in racetracks, began four years ago to quote football odds. Last week Ryan & Co., New York betting commissioners, handled $500,000 on Ohio State v. Notre Dame alone (a record). Not new but flourishing 1,000% above last year is the sport, reputedly run by policy racketeers, whereby small investors buy lists of games for 10? or more, get paid 8-to-1 for picking four winners...