Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is a musty, tropic shade to the atmosphere as the Vagabond deserts his tower. For the first time in years he realizes his own fine youth and strength. His steely frame carries him down the streets in a series of mad gyrations, leaps, and striving. Gradually the objects he meets merge in a slurred monotone of grey, with occasional bursts of color. He is going faster, faster, faster. Faces loom up; they speak, but he hears them not, for he is imbued with the essence of spring. Swirling down out of his course to a peaceful rigidity, he buries...
...late great Russell Sage. One was Superlette, nine-year-old bitch, who was runner-up last year after going through the trials in a splint to save her bad leg. The other was Rapid Transit, a muscular liver & white dog who, in his semi-final heat with the pointer Mad Anthony, made eleven finds, handled perfectly, wound up the last 30 min. of the three-hour run with three fine casts, each for a fresh find...
...baffling array of shots at both goalies, and five-man attacks with mad scrambles in front of the nets kept the spectators on their feet the whole evening. Not until the final bell sounded the end of the hockey season was the outcome certain for the game was a continual see-saw of scores...
...Mad with fear (as well they might be) hundreds of Japanese Peiping residents as well as North Chinese piled onto trains bound for Central China and Shanghai whither 3,882 cases of Manchu treasures were lately shipped from Peiping by the "Young Marshal," no fool (TIME...
...Seattle, after 35 years, Dr. Ira C. Brown apologized to Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt for twice catching her husband trying to break quarantine to go to her when the "Rough Riders" returned to Montauk Point, L. I. from Cuba. Said Mrs. Roosevelt: "Was I mad...