Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond is fit to faint as his sainted Aunt Harriet used to say. Such doings! The old town abandoned itself last night to the spirit of revelry and the Vagabond from the shelter of the Subway Pagoda watched the swirling crowds in their mad career after excitement. Life, he mused, as a Freshman draped a fraternal arm about his shoulders, is a strange thing. Dexterously the Vagabond transferred the affections of the nebulous romantic to a nearby column and went on thinking about life...
...hurl such a proclamation at high-spirited New South Welshmen was risky. "But surely every step must be taken!" cried Premier Lyons' wealthy Cabinet colleague Stanley Melbourne Bruce. "Surely everything possible must be done to check this man [Premier Lang] who is a menace to Australia in his mad career...
...people. . . . We used the Baptist church for a jail, then we got a little jail built and they used the church for a dance hall. Finally some fellow came into town one Sunday afternoon and set fire to our two churches. Burnt 'em down. That made me mad, so I built a Presbyterian church to get even. . . . You can put in the paper that I'm the only guy that ever came out of Texas that wasn't a cowbov. High-heeled boots hurt my feet...
...holding Montezuma hostage, leads to their ruin. When Cortes goes back to Cempoala, to fight off some Spaniards sent after him by Governor Velasquez, Alvarado, left in charge at Mexico City, gets into trouble with the natives. When Cortes returns, Montezuma is slain by his own people who, hornet-mad, drive the conquistadors from their paradise. The following spring the vengeful conquistadors raze the city, build a Spanish town, with streets squared "and the church conspicuous." Spanish settlers follow with their goats, babies, greasy pots. Old Eagle Bernal sickens to remember how, for all the conquistadors' labor, they only...
Home again, Helen finds it more dreadful than ever. Thurso's mother hates her, watches her like a hawk. Between lust for Helen and visions of his father's ghost, Mark begins to go mad. To remove all trace of his father's memory, Thurso cuts clown the humming cable, is cut down himself. Hopelessly crippled, in ceaseless agony, he hangs on to suffering and life. Helen, who hated Thurso for his irreversible will, now loves him for it. In mercy she tries to put him out of his torment, but he will not allow her. After nis crazed brother...