Word: mad
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...should get it a day off and come to see the footballers tell it to Mr. Haughtonstein to say to the Freshmen not to get fresh with Izzy Kaplan because some day Izzy will knock them for a ghoul because Izzy is a hard egg when he is mad and I hope you feel the same...
...elections held in France, Belgium and Italy the extremists were generally defeated shows that on the whole the world is getting tired of destructive criticism. Under the press of abnormal war conditions hysteria was almost university prevalent; and the belligerents on either side did their best to foster tills mad spirit in the ranks of their enemies with the hope of breaking down their morale and making victory nearer and easier for themselves. But now that the war is over, and people generally are slowly coming to their senses the revolutionary element is finding that its room is desired...
...participate indicates that those responsible for the idea had no faith in the adage "You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make him drink." Furthermore, the ruling is quite in keeping with the spirit of the times, when apparently the entire nation has gone quite mad on the subject of regulating anything and everything. National Prohibition has passed; various states are trying to introduce into their legislatures bills to prohibit the smoking of cigarettes; the Postal Telegraph Company has been almost regulated out of business; the railroads will be so regulated that, by the time they...
...There are persons who constantly clamor. They complain of oppression, speculation and the pernicious influence of accumulated wealth. They cry out loudly against all banks and corporations and all means by which small capitals become united in order to produce important and beneficial results. They carry on mad hostility against all established institutions. In a country of unbounded liberty they clamor against oppression. In a country of perfect equality they would move heaven and earth against privilege and monopoly. In a country where the wages of labor are high beyond parallel, they would teach the laborer that...
Junkers and Pan-Germanists now in the saddle in Germany are so drunk with the power gained by their new conquests that they appear to think they can defy all the world. "Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad." --New York Herald...