Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...completely across China in the shape of her two mightiest rivers, the Yangtze which Chinese call "Long River," and the Hwang Ho ("Yellow River"), each more than 2,500 miles long. Last week China's rain gods were pouring destructive torrents into the two River Dragons' veins. Mad with fear, myriads of peasants and town dwellers remembered that as recently as 1931 the Hooding Yangtze chased 10,000,000 Chinese from their homes and killed 140,000 by drowning alone-not to mention the ensuing famine: the greatest disaster of modern times. This year, should both Dragon Rivers...
Partner Kahn asserted that his firm never actively sought new business, but waited, as befitted the banking house second only to J. P. Morgan & Co., for clients to come to it. Denouncing cut throat competition for bond issues, he declared that once "in those mad years [1926-28]'' 15 U. S. bankers were in Belgrade. Jugoslavia, participating in "an undignified scramble'' for an issue. "There were times," he said, "when a dozen were in Central . . . and Latin American states outbidding each other in a foolish, reckless search for business." "Was your bank represented at Belgrade?" asked...
...than new cars registered. For the full year there were 34,246 auto thefts in Cook County (Chicago and environs)-nearly 100 a day. Last week as the Illinois Legislature talked of repealing a stringent new anti-theft law (reason: it might cost money to enforce it) Chicago got mad...
...child and Lilly Turner spends the rest of the picture gloomily giving him money to buy whiskey. They leave their carnival and join a medicine show in which the strong man becomes so inflamed by the sight of Miss Chatterton's legs in silk tights that he goes mad and is removed to an asylum. Lilly Turner consoles herself for her husband's dipsomania and the sad tenor of her existence by having an affair with the strong man's more personable successor (George Brent). She is about to run away with him when there occurs...
...Carlo Cibo, Havana epicurean, on young man's estate: "My God! . . . did you ever think what a terrible mess a young man really is? I mean a youth. That is - a kind of portable apparatus or attachment to three troublesome globes, one who has just stopped being a mad boy and has not yet been scared into being a decent man. One feels profoundly sorry for him. The only peace he can get is for a few hours after a girl has nearly killed him. The rest of the time he goes drifting about making a lot of noise...