Word: mayhem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Words were not only inadequate; they were superfluous. The reader of such gory classics a century ago knew exactly how well-bred young heroines felt in the presence of general mayhem-so long as it was perpetrated by the hero. The reader felt the same way himself and he loved it. He loved it so much that a new literary form, the dime novel, was created in his mental image, and a great publishing industry was built to produce it. At the head of the industry during the early years stood the house of Beadle and Adams. The history...
...Mayhem on Madison
...comic-strip artist knows, violence is a hard thing to picture convincingly. To make mayhem clear, the comics fall back on such arbitrary and unrealistic conventions as lines trailing from fists, stars suspended at the point of contact, and words like CRASH and POW floating overhead. The Persians were more subtle...
...Mayhem has become so much a part of professional hockey that players and fans alike react to the rhythmic thudding of stick on skull almost as complacently as concertgoers listening to the kettledrums. But last week the National Hockey League's scholarly President Clarence Campbell decided that Defenseman Kenny Reardon of the Montreal Canadiens had gone a little too far. Discussing his feud with Toronto's Cal Gardner in the March issue of Sport magazine, Reardon was quoted as saying...
...unstable members of any community, the lunatic fringe, are a larger part of the population than might be supposed. Any doubts about this will be speedily refuted by a trip to "Horse-feathers" and "Monkey Business"--where a large group of supposedly respectable people attempt nightly to work mayhem on the property of the Center Theater, while at the same time splitting their own sides. A word of warning, though: you too may discover yourself to be among the unhinged...