Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boat and told her all manner of absurd things which pleased the little girl tremendously, for no one had ever done such a thing before. She became so interested that her older friend wrote out all these stories for her, stories about white queens, and mad hatters and two odd little chumps called Tweedledee and Tweedledum who were in continual fisticuffs over a rattle. People grew suddenly incredibly tall or shrunk away until they prit near weren't there at all. It was all most confusing and bewildering, but such great fun. There is something, quite delightful about the fearful...
...dance tour of South America. On his return he went to live in St. Moritz, and there, because he could not dance, he began to draw: dance movements, sketches of his daughter, his servants.* It was one of the servants who had been with Nietzsche when that philosopher went mad, who first realized that Vaslav Nijinsky was losing his mind. Nijinsky never became violent, though U. S. newspapers several years ago carried a story that he had been seen trotting round and round a tree under the im pression that he was a horse. He has always had painting materials...
...bacteria. He called this something a phage. Last week after innumerable experiments whither he was beguiled from Egyptian researches, he was prepared to restate his original, but widely questioned belief that a phage was not a chemical but a living organism. A disease germ attacked by a phage goes mad. Its heredity changes; it usually becomes harmless. Unfortunately, some phaged germs develop into something even more virulent...
Somewhere in Germany, in the year 1919, three young painters and a camera-man hatched an idea for a new film. They wanted to use that impersonal and reportorial tool, the camera, to tell a tale from a madman's brain and show the world through a mad-man's eyes. They wanted to becloud the lens, to forsake realism to gain artistic reality. In 1920 this film was finished, and "Dr. Caligari" made his crooked bow to Europe. In those days nothing like it had been seen. Devotees of the arts went to marvel, and there was talk...
Last week Col. Mann, still mad clean through, reappeared in Washington, this time as the leader of a vague anti-Hoover movement. In his headquarters in the Munsey Building he was ready to work openly against the President's renomination. He had no financial backing that anyone could see and what he claimed as "regular Republican" support remained anonymous. What he seemed to lack most of all though was a candidate to put up against the President. Said...