Word: mayhemic
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...every living cell contains a substance which he called cytost (cytos for cell, t for Turck). Each species of animal and plant has its own kind of cytost. Injury to the body liberates quantities of cytost into the blood stream. If the injury is severe-as in mangling, mayhem or scalding-the vast quantity of exuded cytost acts as a poison, causes shock and often death. Occasional, small quantities of cytost are stimulating, but repeated small doses act as a cumulative poison...
...aspects the effervescence of adolescent enthusiasm fills a vital need in this mundane world. The picture of several hundred close-cropped heads milling around a few precious yards of painted wood assures the amused alumnus in double Q that youth has not lost its vigorous fling for modified mayhem. But the Subway riots during the hockey season call forth from administrators and the press sharp distinctions between energetic fun and the disregard for the property and personal rights of non-combatants...
...Shanghai, terrorist societies kept the mail boxes of Chinese judges filled with anonymous letters threatening the most painful forms of mayhem to any who should impose sentence on a boycotter. Department stores were picketed, Japanese shops were bombed. In Nanking the Legislative Council repudiated the Sino-Japanese treaty of May 5. Anti-Japanese boycotters announced frankly that they would inspect all shipments of goods at the rail terminals and confiscate all Japanese goods...
...conditions revert to the mucker-collegiate type, long since out of date, and insist on behaving in a way which can only be described as intensely and drippingly wet. Such are the kind that perpetrate the subway riot tradition, and upon this class the Vagabond proposes to do slaughter, mayhem, and bodily violence, when and if a riot breaks out this evening. His tactics may be all wrong, he may only be adding fuel to the fire but at least he will have given outlet to a desire which has been nurtured in the last two battered and darkened...
Richard Arlen and the slant-eyed Lilyan Tashman are accessories to the fact in this particular piece of mayhem...