Word: mayhemic
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...other general step was taken, and it has a good deal of relevance now that the annual mid-year mayhem is approaching. This was the announced intention of a number of professors--including the heads of the large survey courses--to frame exams with a view to making a tutoring school preparation useless, and further to discriminate against obvious cram parlor answers in making out the grades. Attempts in this direction were made last spring at finals, and this year the efforts will be considerably broadened...
...burlesque of summer barn theatres, with their mauve-tinted playwrights, dimwit patronesses and clod-like performers, it lunges wildly in every direction. It jazzes up Freud, mimics Dali, writhes and wriggles, gambols and glides, rains schottisches, streams gavottes, blows ballets. The atmosphere, at its thickest, is very warm for mayhem. The whole thing suggests perfectly the hysterical side of summer theatres, but doesn't turn the funny side into laughs...
...Picture in your mind's ear the mayhem that a lusty soprano of the oldtime concert stage can commit on that poignant last line of Kiss Me Again. You may think she has screamed as loudly as human lungs can manage all the way through the chorus, but you're wrong: she still has something special left for a flag finish. Here she goes. (Eyes glare.) 'Keesss...
...wrote 22 books on prose style, advertising technique, etc. He was also for 35 years a teacher of English, most of the time in New York City high schools, from which he retired at 60 last year. Teaching, journalism and writing developed in Professor Opdycke a horror of seeing mayhem committed on the English language...
Died. Mrs. Maryon Andrews Cooper Hewitt McCarter, 55, much-married (five times) Virginia belle who reportedly turned down an invitation from the Shah of Persia to head his harem; of cerebral apoplexy; in Manhattan. In 1936 her daughter, Heiress Ann Cooper Hewitt, charged Mrs. McCarter with mayhem: laving her sterilized to retain control of a $10,000,000 trust fund. Daughter Hewitt, who failed to press the charges, later married a mechanic, then a onetime bartender (TIME, March 27). Mrs. McCarter, driven into bankruptcy by extravagance and litigation, had been living on a trustee's allowance...