Word: pandemoniac
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...novelist (The Rat Race) and Hollywood memoirist, is wooden in his overall structure but energetic in his scenes. The Fatty Arbuckle party that led to his sex scandal, trial, ruin and censorship; Greta Garbo's slow but sure rise to stardom amid the "ah-rintch" groves, and the pandemoniac search for an actress to play Scarlett O'Hara. Much space is devoted to a novelization of the rise and fall of Marilyn Monroe. Farber's conclusion: Hollywood did not kill her; "it was just a case of bad luck, mismanagement. She met the wrong people...
...herself spunky little Belgium decided last week to default, thus set an example to the pandemoniac French Chamber of Deputies which led directly to the default of France...
...more. At Philadelphia they detrained informally and proceeded to Shibe Park to see the fifth game of the world series (see p. 66). As the party entered their bunting-draped box, a victrola attached to an amplifier blared "Hail to the Chief," while the crowd cheered. When in a pandemoniac last inning rally, the Athletics won the game and series,' the President smiled, clapped politely...
...delegation just stands up when his State's turn comes and announces or reiterates, "Transylvania-umpteen votes for Hooridge." Unless spectators have rare good seats, they hear little but the candidate's name, because all the delegates go on conversing, arguing or registering enthusiasm all over the pandemoniac convention floor. If a State's vote changes materially between one ballot and the next, the distant spectator will discover it, not through any change of expression in that State's delegates, but by cheers or booes from other delegations. The delegates whose votes have shifted will...
...answered that question in detail, last week; but not until they had done some furious trading. As the Baldwin announcement flashed over the cables to Manhattan, bedlam broke loose in the red-brick building which houses the New York Rubber Exchange. At the close of a day of pandemoniac selling all records for volume of turnover had been shattered by transactions totaling 8,985 long tons and exceeding $5,000,000 in value. The average price, chalked up again and again with fractional variations by perspiring board boys, was 21? per pound...
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