Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...witted Fayne had not made it seem an accident, the murder had been out. To keep the truth from killing his mother, and to save Lance. Fayne persuaded him not to confess what he had done. But his atonement was too much for him: she saw him going slowly mad before her eyes. When at last he threw himself over a cliff Fayne was not surprised, would not let herself follow him because she was growing big with his child...
...spiritually as well. For Honest John has in his own good way lightened the gloom of the morbidly shaded metropolis with the steady beam of a courage which has faced without flinching the unleashed terrors of double negatives, redundant participles, and hopelessly severed infinitives. Before the onslaught of mad sentences without verbs and facts without relevance his head remains bloody, but unbowed. With flags still flying in the teeth of adversity last week, he named a Manhattan street for the Polish hero, Kosciusko, and with something of a manly tear in his voice he denied any ingratitude ("that basest...
...Manhattan the Cohan home faces the Metropolitan Museum on Fifth Avenue. There he writes his songs and plays. He turns out a play a year regularly. The last was Pigeons & People, a mad comedy which is now on the road. He writes his plays as rehearsals progress, pacing up & down the aisle dictating to a secretary and the actors. He moves about among the cast like a white-polled patriarch, stroking a girl's hair, giving an actor's arm a friendly squeeze. They love it. His motions are all deliberate, but even in his gravity there...
Just before Mr. Cook has to escape his political enemies by a wild ride atop two white horses galloping thunderously on a treadmill, the perennial Cook machine is somehow interpolated into the mad proceedings. This year the machine is billed as "The Fuller Construction Company's Recording Orchestra." Wearing the bemedaled and lengthy bandmaster's coat which was seen in Fine & Dandy, Comedian Cook picks up his fiddle & bow. The bow has an inflated bladder tied to one end. Mr. Cook plays a few bars, then slaps an attendant across the back of the neck with the bladder...
...Crow laws, and they are now in full and stupid cry against Judge Lowell. The Crawford decision was outstanding as an example of judicial realism of the most clear and intelligent kind, and is unconstitutional only in protest against an unconstitutionality stupendous in its arrogance and mad in its implications. But more interesting, perhaps, than the fate of any one jurist is the whole problem of the redefinition of constitutionality which will face the ten old men in October. Balancing the Crawford case and the judicial act will be a mere breather beside the dexterity needed to iron...