Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That afternoon an apathetic crowd was prepared.to be bored by the debut of an unknown in a trite, old-fashioned opera. Until she reached the mad scene only her youthful charm impressed. Then she swept the house out of itself. She sang her high F, managed chromatics and staccati with incredible ease. The audience made her take 16 curtain calls...
...lady in the third row. for the onetime champion wrestler (see p. 22). While one part of the audience blushes and the other part guffaws. Comedian Berle proceeds to imitate a person of uncertain gender, quip about the show girls' fundaments, shout depraved announcements into a loudspeaker. Less mad than Jimmy Durante, less subtle than Willie Howard, Comedian Berle's horrid humor is noisily unique. He seems to get a great deal...
...White House steps after lunching with the President. His antipathy for the La Follette regime dated back to a visit to Madison to protest a tax bill. "These State officials." he said, "heckled me, and I didn't like it. They threatened me with a subpena. I got fighting mad and have been fighting ever since." At Yale (Class of 1924) Candidate Chappie gained publicity as a "radical." In Wisconsin he campaigned lustily in & out of the State as a Republican fundamentalist. He flayed the La Follettes as "political racketeers." He excoriated ambitious Dr. Glenn Frank's University of Wisconsin...
...etiquet but French thrift blocked this scheme. Finally His Majesty decided to play surgeon, cut open the stomach of a concubine ''to see what was inside." Soon afterward French doctors formally certified that His Majesty was mad and in 1905 he was banished to Reunion Island off the coast of Madagascar. On Reunion today languishes famed Abd-el-Krim, onetime bandit-chieftain of Morocco, who displeased the French exceedingly by fighting them with vigor, castrating captured Legionnaires (TIME, Sept...
...match Prussia's iron men by bundling the little girls in heavy uniforms, marching them in columns up & down long winding stairs, starving, shadowing, suppressing them. At night they weep for loneliness; they exploit any teacher's kindness into a schoolgirl "crush"; on a rare party they go half-mad with sudden unrestraint. Manuela, after a play in which she has starred, drinks several glasses of the school punch, staggers to the platform and announces that she loves a particular teacher, that the Fraulein (Dorothea Wieck) has given her a chemise. Of this the principal makes such a scandal that...