Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nearly all France believed Assassin Gorgulov to be mad. There was comment and there were shrugs because the Widow Doumer did not ask clemency. But there was no criticism. If the late President's widow had set her heart against a madman surely it was her right to do so. As his death day dawned Dr. Gorgulov kissed the Orthodox priest who administered last rites and said with a wry smile, "I am not afraid. I am neither Royalist nor Communist. I hope that my son, who is yet unborn, will not become a Communist. Tell my wife...
Anna McCullough, 45, was next. She slumped. So did Willie Shockley, 30. In 20 minutes the three mad patients were dead. Doctors raced to Dispenser Maybelle Viall, profanely demanding what had happened...
...school. But his son Edward Laurence Jr. ("Ned") went to U. S. C., was graduated in 1916. After serving as lieutenant in the U. S. Navy, he became a member of the University alumni council, later a University trustee. In February 1929 "Ned" Doheny, 36, was shot by his mad secretary, Robert Plunkett, who then killed himself. A great Doheny friend was Warren Bradley Bo vard, 47, comptroller and vice president of U. S. C., son of its President Emeritus. In December 1930, Comptroller Bovard killed himself, left a note: "Goodbye, Blanie [his wife], I am going to look...
...head, in this case, is that of Henri Berthaud, Wartime Premier of France, which an army officer deposits on a lawyer's table in the opening scene. It then develops that the officer, misshapen, ugly and half mad, had made Henri Berthaud Premier by writing his speeches, editing his newspaper. Afraid of the world because of his deformities, he had injected his personality into Berthaud's handsome person, for which Berthaud had repaid him by stealing his pretty wife. Finding Berthaud in his bedroom, he had chopped off his head with a glittering bayonet...
...wife of putting poison in his breakfast pork and sauerkraut. He fired three charges of buckshot into her. In his 33 years in jail he has painted hundreds of pictures, sold not one. Like Dannemora's artists, he too copies his pictures, sometimes from memory. Called the Mad Artist, he is irrational except for his ability to copy pictures. His subjects include a Resurrection of Christ, a portrait of President Harding and Gains-borough's Blue...