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
The follow-up continues this kookiness with a madhouse spoof of Hallmark holiday saccharine in which a woodpile becomes a homicidal monster.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2025
With the tying run at second base and none out in the ninth inning, he was the calm in a screaming madhouse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025
Mr Acciardo described the scene as a "madhouse" when first responders arrived.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2024
Players stood or sat in odd comers, talking to themselves, making curious faces and sudden gestures, for all the world like residents of a madhouse.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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
In every town he knows the jails, the madhouses, the cantinas and the churches.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were frequent and dangerous abuses in madhouses, so in 1774, no one may keep or confine more than one lunatic without a license granted by the Royal College of Physicians or forfeit 500 pounds.
From Our Legal Heritage : 600-1776 King Aethelbert - King George III by S. A. Reilly
