Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possible that even for a two dollar ticket there is no such demand for football games this year as there was in other years. Sports psychology from the standpoint of tickets is peculiar. There is feverish excitement and mad ticket hunting only when tickets are scarce. The Holy Cross game was an example of that last year. Three days in advance of the game 40,000 tickets had been sold. Seventeen thousand tickets were purchased between the Wednesday and Friday noons preceding the game. Notwithstanding the fact that announcement was made then that the game was sold out, there were...
...Erie's shore boiled and bubbled with hot personal indignation. President Hoover believes that Governor Roosevelt & henchmen are trying to steal the presidency from him with lies about his past and misrepresentations about his present. Radio listeners who heard only the Hoover voice imagined him flushed and fighting mad. The President's-audience within the hall saw a pale, distraught man, deeply aroused by political forces beyond his control. His scalding words, his tense tones were what many a Republican had wanted to see him use three months instead of three weeks before election...
...magazine was the Canadian Journal of Commerce, a cheaply printed monthly with a small circulation. The October issue, which was the one that made Mr. Macaulay righting mad, bore this caption on its front page...
...over Soldiers Field last night, eleven CRIMSON iron men wound up their last grueling practice session. This afternoon at 4 o'clock in some far corner of Soldiers Field, the CRIMSON will gird up its ink-stained Joins and go forth to do battle with the red-skinned, scalp-mad fury of the Daily Dartmouth...
...legger boss, Joe Christmas, who have been living in a cabin on her place. Here Faulkner drops the gravid mother, goes back & back to Joe Christmas' beginnings. Because he was a bastard with Negro blood in him. little Joe had a hard time from the start. His mad grandfather made it worse by hounding him religiously, lost the trail when Joe grew old enough to commit murder. Down a long Beale Street wandered Joe alone, passing as a white when he wanted to. but hating white and black alike. When they got him for the Burden killing his grandfather...