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Humphrey Bogart never got his diploma; he was kicked out in 1918 for "incontrollably high spirits."

From Time Magazine Archive

The mines of Peru would not supply the monies which would be wasted on this object, nor the patience of any people stand the abuses which would be incontrollably committed under it.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

The fire burnt as warmly as ever, but Sophie was trembling incontrollably, and her heart was beating most unmercifully.

From Bressant by Hawthorne, Julian

The murmurs again rose incontrollably high, and some proposed to seize Morgan and force him to a fair division.

From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Thornbury, Walter