Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Madrid consulate and Chile had 2,000 in its Embassy. Both got stamping mad when the Loyalists demanded the refugees' surrender...
...London, Marion Lovell, a onetime chorine who had run to fat, got so mad she bounced up & down on her boardinghouse bed, finally broke it. When her landlady sued her, her solicitor pleaded: "She is rather a heavy woman; she will obviously need a fairly substantial bed." But Bouncer Lovell...
...deliberate lie" was what President Roosevelt called press reports that at a secret conference with the Senate Military Affairs committee he: 1. Called Hitler the "Mad Man of Europe." 2. Admitted negotiating a naval alliance with Britain. 3. Termed the the U. S. air force "poorly manned and equipped" 4.Placed the U. S. defense frontier in France. 5. Asked for an air fleet of 12,000 planes...
...Charlotte, Branwell's death at 31 meant "the untimely, dreary extinction of what might have been a bright and shining light." Emily loved him most. "Drive me mad," she had prayed bitterly in Wuthering Heights, "but do not leave me in an abyss where I cannot find you." Her own death came twelve weeks after...
When Roman Catholics think that their faith has been flouted or their rights have been invaded, they get mad, form picket lines, write letters to editors, buttonhole legislators, in short, act like the political citizens they are. Protestants, whose aggregate weight is much greater, appear by comparison either meek or musclebound. But last week in Philadelphia a Protestant group took off its coat, rolled up its sleeves and displayed capable biceps. A meeting of 500 Protestant ministers and laymen gave enthusiastic endorsement to a League for Protestant Action. Among other things, the League announced its belief in the proposition that...