Word: pandemoniums
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...fearsome phenomenon. Suddenly and inexplicably large crowds began to dance in the streets with furious abandon, screaming, writhing, foaming at the mouth. The mania spread from city to city, new victims being inspired by sight of wandering sufferers, until most of Central and Northern Europe was a howling, leaping pandemonium. Uncontrollable, the dancers heeded no barriers, dashed out their brains against stone walls, pranced off bridges. Those caught in time were turned over to priests for lifting of curses, casting out of demons...
Appointment of a parson and a rabbi to help Rev. Frederic Siedenberg. executive dean of the Jesuit University of Detroit, mediate Detroit's pandemonium of sit-down strikes was not the only thing which reminded observers of the medieval dance mania last week as they watched the U. S. Sit-Down epidemic of 1937 spread out across the land. From Salem witchcraft persecution to Ku Klux Klan, from Gold Rush of 1849 to Bull Market of 1929, the U. S. has shown itself no less subject than its sister nations to seizures of mass hysteria. The Sit-Down last...
...gigantic sporting pandemonium of the Olympic Games, of which the purpose is to promote international good will, the uproar about the Peruvian soccer team was last week's most noteworthy single item. Meanwhile, at Berlin, the Games proceeded briskly to their...
...politics to a bewilderingly opportunistic role. Their accent is on a half-baked immediate program." First excitement in the divided convention came when the Right delegation from New York appeared on the floor to claim seats already occupied by the Left delegation. A sergeant-at-arms stopped them. Pandemonium burst. Rightist leaders from Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Connecticut began to shout together at this physical attempt to exclude their comrades from New York. Norman Thomas finally brought temporary peace by saying: "Mr. Chairman-since there doesn't seem to be enough room on the floor for the 'Old Guard...
Traditional local indifference received a severe setback in the Union last night as 1000 men of Harvard took part in the University's annual pandemonium meeting, sometimes referred to as the Freshman Smoker...