Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That "War is a mad and barbarous business" is true. No one knows that better than we who were on those battlefields and in those hospitals and saw these horror pictures in grim reality for days. We know these things from actually living them. We, who know what war really is, are not pacifists. We don't want another. We feel that these pictures are desired only by publishers for personal gain or by the morbid who derive a fiendish delight from pictures of war-torn wounded, hideous contortions of agonizing death, bloated, discolored, decomposing bodies of young manhood...
...Money was plentiful. The mad orgy was on. Speculation was encouraged not only by bankers greedy for profits but by the very Government itself. In one aspect the people themselves were to blame; but in another every rule of fair play, every principle of forthrightness and honesty acquit those ignorant of finance and transfer the guilt to the international bankers who coined the ignorance and confidence of their customers. ... If ever there was a racket imposed upon the American people, that racket is the racket that has been played upon American investors by the international bankers with the securities they...
First men to see the "wild man" were Ernest Blanchard and Leslie Turner, two trappers, when he burst from the woods and started shooting at them. Whether the towering, dusky creature was an insane nature-lover bent on saving the lives of animals, like mad Albert Johnson who was killed in the wilds of Canada last month (TIME, Feb. 29), Woodsmen Blanchard and Turner did not stop to inquire. They fled through the woods and reported to the State police at Long Lake. A lieutenant with four of his men and two forest wardens, accompanied by the trappers...
...told her I was going back to Elizabeth at dance. She got very mad. She threw a rock and hit me in the chest. She cried she was going to tell on me. Then she got a knife out of her bag and tried to cut me. I threw her down and took.the knife. I hit her with a rock and cut her neck. . . . Then she got up and walked few steps, then fell down. Then I felt very bad. I cried. I went to horse and made horse travel fast away from...
...preserve the country's wild flowers he must never pick pink Lady's Slipper, Indian Moccasin, Liverleaf, Turk's-cap lily, Lady's Tresses, Rattlesnake Plantain. In moderation the Garden Club allows the picking of Grass of Parnassus, New Jersey Tea, Bluets, Clammy Azalea, Mad-Dog Skullcap and Virgin's Bower. If the urge to pick simply overpowers a city-dweller, the Garden Club begs him go for Blue-eyed grass. Bouncing Bet, Horse Mint, Daisy Fleabane, Devil's Bit, Lousewort and Viper's Bugloss. Violets, daisies and goldenrod are all right...