madhouse
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The team was undecided on how well Mellencamp’s biggest hits—sepia-tinted odes to small-town America—fit today’s college football madhouse cathedrals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
Tim O’Reilly, a media writer in Chicago, says that if he didn’t come to a streaming service with a title already in mind, the search would be a madhouse.
From Salon ● May 22, 2025
The kitchen turns into a madhouse with cooks working and waitresses fighting to get their orders out first, all while the floor is flooded with soda.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2024
Mr Acciardo described the scene as a "madhouse" when first responders arrived.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2024
Betsie’s gentle voice startled me in that squirming madhouse.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
The burnt-orange and Sooner-red halves of the Cotton Bowl had alternated as madhouses.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 9, 2021
“The incarceration of freethinking healthy people in madhouses is spiritual murder,” he said.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2018
It would be a total madhouse but, remembering the previous total madhouses, you could go: OK, we just have to hold out for another 15 minutes and it will recede.
From Slate ● Jan. 7, 2013
Dadd spent the last 40 years of his life in madhouses, dying all but forgotten in Broadmoor in 1886.
From Time Magazine Archive
The prisons of that day served also for madhouses.
From Starvecrow Farm by Weyman, Stanley J.
