Word: bedlamic
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Giulio Confalonieri, critic of Il Tempo, came armed with a shrill whistle. He also brought along seven friends, similarly equipped. The curtain was barely up when they cut loose. From there on, through three acts, it was bedlam...
...House, bald, urbane Speaker Sam Rayburn called his charges to order promptly at noon in the Ways & Means Committee room. The clerk droned through the roll in a rising crescendo of bedlam and backslapping. The House knew, even though the Senate might not admit it, that what remains of the 81st Congress would be full of sound & fury, signifying nothing. The principal task of the lame-duck session, triumphant Bob Taft had said, was to "adjourn...
...also thinks that they should go slow with extreme procedures such as brain surgery (lobotomy) or shock treatments which are often ordered for schizophrenics from fear that "the patient will deteriorate." Pointedly he asks: "What really is deterioration?" Mrs. X showed none, even after what seemed an eternity in bedlam...
...noted a contemporary, "He acts five Parts himself, & is only sorry, he can't do all the rest, he has also advertised a Collection of Odes; & [as] for his Vanity & Faculty of Lyeing, they are come to their full Maturity, all this . . . must come to a Jayl, or Bedlam...
...haughty caterer (Leo G. Carroll) sniffs through Tracy's suburban home, orders it thoroughly revamped for the reception. Tracy's 20-year-old cutaway splits a seam. A lovers' quarrel threatens briefly to end the whole show. The wedding rehearsal turns into bedlam. Then comes the ceremony itself and the ultimate chaos-the reception. Tossed about in a maelstrom of thirsty guests and burdened with such undignified chores as untangling traffic jams out front, Tracy cannot find his daughter to say goodbye before she rushes off on her honeymoon. Finally he is alone and at peace with...