Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...infamous suggestion!" The little Virginian was now mad clean through. '"And I don't say that under the shelter of constitutional immunity, either. You have suggested that I interpolated the word 'laughter' in the Record...
...King's Bench Division before Hon. Mr. Justice Branson, outraged Broker Blennerhassett brought suit for libel against a vendor of the silly jerk-on-a-string tops called yo-yos. The yo-yo man had advertised that a man named Blennerhassett had gone stark, raving mad from diddling with...
...knew she had been wounded. We passed three passenger busses but they took no notice of our plight, preferring to get out of range of the shots. During all this time I urged my chauffeur with cries of 'Quicker, Gjanni!' Despite his wounds he drove like mad and got us to the hospital...
True to the conductor's premonition, Magowan's mad driving was too much for the old engine: a side rod let go, flailed the engineer to death. During the long wait for the relief engine Jason and Lena decided to make a run for it to the nearest town. But a railroad detective chased them, shot Lena. Jason's dream of freedom collapsed; he knew he would go home to his wife. Knox's star witness was gone but he got his old mistress back again. The remains of old Magowan, covered with a blanket, were...
Like Professor Babbitt, Mr. Jones offers no plan for reconstruction. He is sick of plans, and all the pictures of graph-mad and system-ridden normal school experimenters which they connote. He merely desires a healthy clearing of the underbrush of American education, and an unplanned but carefully nurtured reforestation of sound principles...