Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jolson (leaving Hollywood "for the last time")-If I ever see that fellow again I'll let him have it. I'm still mad; good and sore, in fact...
What people liked about Death of a Hero, Author Aldington's first job of fiction, was that the writer attacked his story with the malicious gusto of a man who was hopping mad. In Roads to Glory, The Colonel's Daughter, Soft Answers, the War-torn writer's spleen, his disgust with the England he loves too well, abated not a whit. If there is less bile in All Men Are Enemies, if it seems a bit less malicious than the previous Aldington novels, it is because it is longer (574 pp.), less direct, padded. Author Aldington...
...colossal pile, and after each succeeding shower there was blinding darkness all around. Rain washed the wide expanse of windows intermittently and the wind in the chimneys moaned and shrilled like some dying titan. It was a fit night for ghoulish purposes, unthinkable horrors that drive the possessor slowly mad. In the cavernous vault the noise of thunder rolled and broke with the insistence of throbbing tom-toms. Somewhere out over the plain of roofs gleaming with water and the trees that tossed their branches in a spasm of agony as if to relieve some obsessing pain, a bell tolled...
...Vincent ("Mad Dog") Coll was the kind of a gangster that big gangsters mortally fear. He was out to make his reputation as a killer, and he figured that the ratio of his own importance would increase with the importance of the criminals he killed. He had leaders like Owney Madden quite nervous until two men put the finger on him in a telephone booth last winter...
Just before sudden death overtook him. Mad Dog Coll took to wife Lottie Kreisberger, a small brunette who publicly promised to reform her hoodlum mate. After his death Mrs. Coll appears to have given up all thought of reform, for she was once arrested for carrying a gun and last week was indicted for murder in The Bronx...