Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia) I read TIME over the weekend, I now have to wait until Monday, sometimes Tuesday, to get my hands on it. Local friends who are TIME readers seem to be hardened to this treatment, thankful for TIME any time. I am not. In fact I'm mad. Can't you fellows charter a plane to get your copies out here for weekend consumption? How about...
...once a fine mansion, went to wrack & ruin. Chickens, ducks, pigs, goats, dogs roamed at will through its high-ceiled rooms. Filth and trash littered the floors. Old tin cans were strewn about a dusty library of fine volumes, furniture vanished in debris. The squalid scene with its half-mad characters was strongly suggestive of the morbid Southern melodramas of Mississippi's Author William Faulkner who specializes in social decay amid evil surroundings...
...next hour. . . . "I am serious about marriage - too serious to indulge in it. ... I know that once I get a thing - or a man - I'll tire of it and of him. . . . "I go to the movies. Garbo is a very great genius. I'm mad about her. And I'm not, as a rule, "very fond of women. . . . "If there's anything the matter with me now, it's certainly not Hollywood or Hollywood's state of mind. . . . The matter with me is, I WANT A MAN! . . . Six months is a long, long...
Earl shouted at him. Suddenly Sunshine turned on his keeper, hugged him tight with one foreleg, clawed him viciously with the other. Keeper Earl shouted for help, wrestled for his life. Guards came running, fired shot after shot at the mad bear. Three shots struck Keeper Earl, the 30th slew the bear. Physicians examining the keeper's body found his lungs ripped open, his intestines bared by great claw strokes. They decided that the bear, not the bullets, had slain Keeper Earl...
...visitors watched. A few, carried away by the excitement, vaulted the fence, joined the runners. Occasionally a runner fell, lay still while the bulls, their eyes on the moving mass, pounded over them. From the plaza the chase poured into another small street, then men & bulls made one mad rush for the entrance of the bull ring...