Word: mayhemic
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...centuries Thailand supported this formalized mayhem, but in 1934 the government decided to civilize boxing. Fighters were forced to wear four-ounce gloves, bouts were limited to five three-minute rounds, and some basic rules were established (no biting, gouging, or kicking a man who was down). Today the sport is controlled by the national police department, and Thailand supports some 500 professional fighters. Buddhist bonzes (priests) box for exercise, and the prefight prayer is an important ritual...
Suspense novels are meant to transport a man from his drab daily anxieties into a euphoric state of really high-class terror. Most authors in the suspense business used to accomplish this by piling up murder and mayhem, sin and skulduggery with all the subtlety of a meat-ax killer. That style is still widely practiced, but in recent years the suspense formula has become as elastic as a private eye's suspenders. It has often been stretched to include such weighty matters as character, group psychology, politics and sometimes even good writing. Thus a new category was created...
...Boston Hearst papers, the Record, the American, the Sunday Advertiser (total circ. 1,748,437); in Boston. In Chicago, Howey became city editor of the Tribune at 25, editor of the Hearst Her aid-Examiner ten years later. Ignoring events outside Chicago, Editor Howey concentrated on local mayhem and scandal, paid police-switchboard operators to tip him off on the latest crime, delighted in planting fake stories in opposition newspapers. In Boston, a mellowed top Hearst executive, he took time off to develop an automatic photoengraving machine (1931), a "soundphoto" system of transmitting photographs by wire...
...your Feb. 8 picture captioned "Prizewinner Fraley Has Her Wish": when you inform the world that Mrs. Walter R. Fraley is ... running a "manually operated handcar," you commit mayhem and drag railroad jargon about by the ears. As boy and man I've functioned as a boomer on 86 pikes as brass pounder, shack, tallow pot, gandy dancer, hoghead* and so forth, from Alaska to Cape Horn; and because I've worked on the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad a short hitch, I am sure that a velocipede or "speeder" is not called a handcar on that streak...
...Despite the high incidence of mayhem on Suspense, sponsor Auto-Lite, makers of car appliances, sees to it that no one is ever hurt in an auto accident...