Word: pandemonium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this fruitful pandemonium had been set in motion by the nation's newspaper publishers, who organized the drive (TIME, Sept. 14). Every town provided its scrap-news oddity. In Newton, Mass., Siamese Cat Champion Chinky died and left 25 lb. of metal cups and badges to the local campaign. A woman in Cohoes, N.Y. donated an iron bench she used to sit on beside her Spanish-American War veteran husband's grave. The old cruiser Olympia, flagship to Admiral Dewey at Manila and bearer in 1921 of the body of the Unknown Soldier, started to have...
...lifts my heart up, times I think I'm jus' obliged to die." When Mrs. Rawlings fell from her horse and broke her neck, 'Geechee cared for her tenderly. But she taught Mrs. Rawlings' other two Negroes to drink. One morning Author Rawlings "awoke to pandemonium." Powerless to move in her steel brace, she heard stove lids hurled, plates smashed, shrieks. Every so often 'Geechee would stagger in to reassure her: "Kate an' Raymond's fightin', but don't you worry." "The bacon done burnt itself...
...noises increased - louder percussions, trimmed with human screams, wardens' and firefighters' shouts, fire-engine clangs, the crackle of flames. Finally the pandemonium faded; the pale people were led out. They said that the thing was terrifying, but they were glad to have been through...
What happened in the pandemonium that followed will be hashed and rehashed for years to come. Many ringsiders claimed that Louis' final punch landed just after the bell. Baer's handlers, swarming all over the ring, demanded that Referee Donovan disqualify Louis. Instead, when the bell rang for the beginning of the seventh round and Baer's handlers refused to clear out or let their boy leave his corner (even if he could), Donovan disqualified Baer, awarded the fight to Louis...
...more prosperous members of the financial colony were among the gloomiest. One, curt, stubby, red-mustached Major Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas (single interviews $100 an hour), who has been accused of starting several bear raids, periodically flabbergasts Wall Street by distressing ads titled "Fool's Paradise," "Pandemonium Ahead," "Nose Dive," etc. The other: William J. ("Billy") Baxter, economist-investment consultant, who in 1936 predicted a revolt in Britain, now expects the English to quit or fold up within a few weeks, carry Wall Street with them...