Word: mania
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could anyone explain the wave of fanaticism. Since going juramentado has lost some of its religious significance and is now sometimes sheer homicidal mania, it could have been just the excitement of the Moro harvest festivals. Or the out breaks might reflect Moro resentment against conscription or against the despised, diminutive, Christian Filipinos' (with whom the Moros have fought for centuries) settling and trying to govern in Moro territory...
...outburst of enthusiasm, according to Fradd, is simply a phase of the "physical education mania" which always sweeps the country in time of war. The first reaction against the usual "laissez faire' 'policy has come with the propaganda campaign being waged by a department of Mayor Laguardia's "Office of U. S. Civilian Defense" known as the Division of Physical Education. "Hale America", a movement sponsored by this division and headed by Alice Marble and John B. Kelly, has already sent publicity to educational institutions...
...Hooton, Germany is "the regue elephant of the herd of national pachyderms, and it baffles veterinary skill to discover the basic cause of its homicidal mania." It evils have so permeated the present generation of the country that "nothing short of a complete obliteration of the German state" can destroy its influence...
Taking the old ones down from the shelf and dusting them off is developing into what seems to be a positive, and certainly must be a paying mania of the Messrs. Shubert, Last year it was "Rose Marie" and "Blossom Time"; this year it has already been "The Student Prince," and now it is "Rio Rita"-the latest to be ground out of the Shubert revival mill. Like warmed-over carrot pudding they are never so good as at the original scrving, but the old always come back for a nostalgic second and the young to see what their elders...
...wrote Historian J. F. C. Hecker of the great dancing mania of the 14th and 15th Centuries. By medieval standards, the square-dancing mania that possessed many a U.S. youth last week was pretty tame, but Schoolmaster Lloyd Shaw, its originator, observed hopefully that children, too, were beginning to cut loose...