Word: amuck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sympathy of treatment which Hollywood has seldom acquired. For the movies a character is all wool, or he is the worst shoddy that ever was carted through mill door. Bancroft disregards any opportunities the directors might give him. He bellows, he swaggers, he is the usual rugged George gone amuck...
Wrathfully one day last week almost every shimbun (newspaper) in the Japanese Empire front-paged a picture of U. S. Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson. Scorching captions declared that in Washington he had "insulted the Imperial Japanese Army by charging, with ignorant presumption, that it has run amuck...
...politeness is an iron rule, Press Spokesman Shiratori Toshio snapped: "If a man in Mr. Stimson's position loses his head at such a critical moment in the affairs of Japan, the consequences would be very grave indeed. . . . Mr. Stimson says the Japanese Army in Manchuria 'ran amuck.' This is considered a very bold statement indeed...
...between the peaceably inclined Japanese civil Cabinet and pugnacious independent Japanese militarists like General Honjo. "Officials were given the impression," wired the A. P. in summarizing Mr. Stimson's press conference, "that the Military party, which is not under complete control of the civil Government, had simply run amuck...
Narrator of this sad story was a doctor who ran amuck. Resident in a native village in the Dutch East Indies, he was lonely, bored till one day in walked a beautiful Englishwoman, a rich trader's wife. She was in trouble: her husband, who had been away five months, was about to return; she was going to have a baby by another man; she wanted the doctor to perform an illegal operation while there was time. She offered him a fortune to do it. The doctor did not like her manner : she was supercilious, but she fired...