Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reconstruction Finance Corp., the Federal Land Banks' increased capitalization, the Glass-Steagall bill (see p.11). Democrats are hard at work upping taxes, cutting expenses to balance the budget. But when Republican politicians like Mr. Jahncke claim all the credit for these relief measures, Speaker Garner gets fighting mad. Warned he: "It's well enough to talk of a political truce but let me tell you that the kind of truce we intend is not that the Administration shall continue hostilities while we abstain from them." Last week Speaker Garner led the House into a clear-cut split with...
Henry Ford received the Press last week and strolled with it through Ford Motor Co.'s Dearborn laboratory. In a corner of the room they slipped behind a screen. Said Mr. Ford, grinning eagerly: "They're apt to get mad at me for coming in here...
...three words: "Peace, Bread and Land." "They knew the people. . . . They whispered three words, then waited three months, then acted." Outlawed, the Lancers tried to win their way back to Poland, hid in the forests, finally had to desert their beloved horses and scatter. Boleslavski took shelter with a mad woman who thought he was her dead husband returned from the War. Mixing with a mob of soldiers he got away to Moscow and another life. Way of the Lancer, written in collaboration with Helen Woodward, is the March choice of The Literary Guild...
...feeling of horror rather than of a holy sacrifice well performed. To get his self-righteousness corroborated by others he tries to persuade the editors of two Dublin newspapers to feature the murder-story as a testimony of Divine Wrath against evildoers. They think he is mad; by this time he obviously is. The man who murdered Teresa for divine reasons, and the man who now realizes that he murdered her only because of jealous love, make up a split personality that splits wider every minute...
...midnight he is arrested, confesses to the police. Completely mad, he is thrown into a cell where over and over he cries out his maniacal conclusion: "There is no God, but man has a divine destiny...