Word: craze
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every fall now, we as a country, go college-mad. We call it the football craze, but nobody who has the slightest knowledge of mob psychology can underestimate the enormous impetus college wards that the absorption in football is giving the youth of America. It is impossible to think of football without thinking also of college. The two ideas are psychological Siamese twins. And it is impossible not the think of football from the day when the first fall practice beguns until after Thanksgiving, unless one is a mental hermit. The thousands of universities and colleges between the two oceans...
Burlesque Craze in New York
...have become interested in the growing craze for burlesque, a craze which took New York by storm. Burlesque, under this popularity, is being improved in theatrical and moral quality. The greatest rage is the negro burlesque...
...this another instance of the extreme democracy of the frontier spirit? Or is it a revulsion of feeling among European settlers against the observed Ethiopian craze for personal adornment? The urge for decoration moves both the European courtier and the dusky noble. The Capetown celebrity, who has seen the necks of native chiefs hung with alarm-clocks and frying-pans, may yearn with less avidity for the Order of the Garter or of the Bath. The gap between medals and tatooing is no greater than that between Picadilly and the jungle...
...Stolen, magistrate of Madison, Wis., where the University is situate, stated last week that many students were of such licentious habits that frequently, at cockcrow, persons believed to be female, but smelling dismally of alcohol, were carried in blankets from fraternity houses. "Liquor and women have become a craze." Crime increases; "the County jail would be filled twice a week if every offender were sent up." University officials denied that such revels ever occurred except possibly in vacation periods but agreed with Judge Stolen that dissolute students should suffer for their vices the severest penalty that the law allows...