Word: mania
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...using a broomstick for a bat, a boxing glove for a ball. That was in 1888. In the next 40 years, the game crept tentatively out of doors, developed a loose set of rules and modestly acquired a new name: "softball." Suddenly, in 1930, it became a U. S. mania...
...acute is Japanese spy mania today, so galling are restrictions and indignities imposed upon tourists, that Japanese tourist agencies recently petitioned the Ministry of Interior for relief. The best they could get was this significant order to Japanese detectives* and police: "It is intimated that in future it will not be necessary to look upon all foreigners traveling in Japan as spies...
...this fault that so many of his sonnets strike no note of response in the reader. It is sincerely to be hoped that Mr. Agee's future efforts will turn rather toward a development of the fine imagination and careful verse of "Ann Garner" than to this individualistic mania which threatens to injure this latest of America's "promising" poets...
...killed by their own stupidity we get a hint that the changes have not yet penetrated for "a huge poster over the piggery, but such fifth inside that been the pigs have died." Certain classes pursue the communist ideal with a fansticism and introspection almost identical to the religious mania of the Inquisition, using the same terms-apostasy, heresy, faith. Others, at the same time, are committing acts of repulsive brutality in vegeance against the Soviets--in truth a revolt of sheep. In their new Messianism, the Russians have taken many characteristic from the United States, slogans, heroes, "high pressure...
...latest theory brought forward by Professor Allen is that the sea-serpent mania comes as a direct result of the repeal of the eighteenth amendment. Another contributing cause may be the complexly of modern life which demands some from of psychological release from the worries of the N.R.A. Sea-serpents were never seen by the sailors on the clippers which sailed out of Salem in the old days. It takes warm spring weather and a brisk tourist service to develop really good monster crazes...