Word: mad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...PLAY GIRL, THE MAD HOUR, A CERTAIN YOUNG MAN, BURNING DAYLIGHT, FLYING ROMEOS, and others...
...this sentiment has played midwife to the birth of a new ostracism, then Harvard has once again gone too far. When typewriters, pajamas, and cameras go red, blue and flesh, the Senior has opportunity to render his first service to waiting mankind, by calming a world gone color mad with the dignity of baccalaureate black. More that that, his immediate attention to duty might relieve Harvard of the stigma, at present deserved, of self-consciousness...
...ghoulish sport by maiming 200 more unsuspecting men, women & children. Such fiends would delight to steal upon a wedding party and strike down the bride, the bridegroom and the guests. As their sadistic fury grew they would slay horses, cattle, dogs, cats, and perhaps run mad, slashing trees, stabbing bushes, murdering grass...
...lady in the nightgown was Miss Clara B. Spence, the principal of the Spence School, where the frightened girls were boarders. There was a reason for her mad, midnight revelling. She had caught her pupils having surreptitious feasts in their cubicles. She wished to show them that she, their principal, could give much better feasts than they could. Then, Miss Spence was certain, they would break her rules no more. That wise, surprising and effective banquet occurred many years ago, in the winter...
...result, forecast by every newspaperman, has been a mad orgy of snooping, culminating yesterday in three Boston papers "jumping the release date"--in other words, printing official announcements ahead of the agreed-upon time. The Stadium announcement was spread to the world a day ahead of time by the Herald-Traveler, the Boston American, and even the very proper Boston Evening Transcript...