Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...policeman tried to tackle Ferguson, but the mad man, wet and slippery, kicked him away, kept his grip on the midget until she was dead. Fox got three more policemen; Ferguson fought them with chairs, a table, his teeth. They had not subdued him when, suddenly, he stopped fighting, fell dead of a heart attack...
...days before, Ronald G. Van Tine of the U. P. had been told by a Senator (whom he refused to name) that the President was "hopping mad" over the shelving of his Neutrality Bill, that Secretary Hull was urging him not to send a "forceful" message to Congress. The U. P.'s Grattan P. McGroarty had got similar news at the State Department. Correspondents Van Tine and McGroarty sent out a story, under Van Tine's signature, beginning: "President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull were reported in Administration quarters today to have disagreed on the language...
...Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run" is a character with whom Cleveland newspapers have curdled their readers' blood since 1934, when the first of 13 dissected torsos was discovered in the city's purlieus. Neatly beheaded, arms and legs deftly removed, the grisly remains of seven men and six women suggested the work of a fiend acquainted with the meat-chopping profession. As one killing after another came to light periodically, Cleveland's harried sheriff hired a private detective named Lawrence J. ("Pat") Lyons to work on the case...
...strength. He figured Japanese casualties in China at 1,000,000, some 940,000 more than is admitted officially by the Japanese. In another 15,000-word address the Generalissimo begged the Japanese people to "awake from a publicity-induced stupor under militaristic supervision and save themselves from mad aggression leading to certain ruin and destruction...
Died. Alfonso Laurent Cik, 38, Yugoslav decorator, whom Spanish Nationalists accused of decorating Loyalist prison cells with weird designs that changed under dazzling lights, drove prisoners mad; at the hands of an official garroter; in Barcelona...