Word: bedlamic
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...civic-minded Washingtonian is doomed by circumstance to be a thwarted, unhappy man. By geography he is disfranchised-he has no voice in managing his 69,245 square miles of handsomely landscaped bedlam. He is plagued by starlings, 10? streetcar fares, a water system that floods basements even after a drizzle, a street-cleaning system that depends mainly on the wind, a police force loaded with the castoffs of Congressional patronage-and some of the worst slums...
...from their studio by an irate producer. Undaunted, they form their own company, with Franchot Tone as director and a would-be millionaire as financial backer. Tone, as talent scout, discovers the love interest--Marsha Hunt. In an hour and a quarter of slapstick "humor" and distorted romance, the bedlam increases, until climaxed by the sale of the movie-within-a-movie for over a million dollars (stage money...
...Bedlam in the stockyards, where a record high of 300,000 hogs a day are being slaughtered, may soon force a reluctant OPA to remove pork from list of rationed foods...
...rode through the bedlam of the Place de la Concorde, staring with frigid disapproval at the hysterical, joy-drunk mobs, who threatened to engulf him. His heart and his tongue alike were prophetically bitter: the war, though mercifully over, had not been won. Into sullen, unmolested Germany marched a U.S. Army of Occupation. Pershing saw a future that wishful, gentler men could...
John Philip Sousa III (grandson of the late, great bandmaster John Philip Sousa) has written one of those hilarious life-with-father stories in which the day-to day doings of a respectable U.S. family suggest a quiet hour in bedlam...