Word: bedlamic
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...some morning of this week, students sleeping in the Yard will bound from their beds under the impression that bedlam and inferno have broken loose; for the 4500 pounds of metal in the new bell in Harvard Hall will be catapulting wildly from side to side of the reinforced tower for the first time...
...been providing cages and food for antelopes, birds, pythons, mongooses, monkeys, anteaters, hedgehogs, turtles, baboons. Lassoing gnus; dodging buffalos and night-prowling rhinos; cornering giraffes; distinguishing between hyenas and leopards in the dark, were occupations,, routine. "As I write," wrote Dr. Mann from Lake Manyara, "there is a chronic bedlam from the courtyard where our material is kept. A freshly arrived baboon is yowling in a way . . . that makes you admire his persistence." The expedition was homeward bound, having obtained its special objects: giraffes, zebras, rhinoceroses...
...united armies of Asia could ever be set in motion. Such an enterprise implies a unity of purpose of which there is no sign, and therefore, to add up the millions of China and India and then multiply them by the power of Japan, is the arithmetic of bedlam...
...Jacques Dumesnil, one of the chief sponsors of the Cartel bill as a whole, groaned aloud. Protesting at the top of his lungs he cried: "Imbeciles! Scelerats!! All you are capable of voting is that the largest class of electors shall pay nothing!" As the tumult mounted to utter bedlam, the President of the Chamber put on his hat and stalked from the room, thus officially declaring the Chamber not in session. The disgusted gentleman who stalked was none other than M. Herriot himself, the ostensible leader of the fractious Cartel...
Once more Brattle Hall these last few nights has been seething like all Bedlam let loose during the rehearsals for another fantastic and most un-Canta-brigian drama. Once more out of the chaos of undergraduate acting the pa- tience of Mr. Edward Massey '15, is succeeding in bringing forth some sort of dramatic cosmos in our abandoned New England drama-farm. Once more the Harvard Dramatic Club is about to offer to the University an opportunity for a little education in modern drama and thus help to fill that aching void--the dramatic desire under the academic elms...