Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soprano in this case was Rosa Ponselle who sang superbly but looked funny in a Pocahontas get-up luring the Spanish tyrant (Baritone Mario Basiola). The tenor was Brooklyn-born Frederick Jagel who increased his stature but not his dignity by wearing an enormous headpiece ludicrously like the Mad Hatter...
...without interrupting the tone or affecting its quality. But hitherto players on the big horn have had to have the heart and lungs of athletes. Oboists and bassoonists need outside help even more because of their tiny, double-reed mouthpieces. The legend that all woodwind players eventually go mad is based on the fact that they must take in vast quantities of air, then let it out like a thread, very slowly and evenly...
...George Johnson, secretary of the National Catholic Educational Association. They fear a Federal department as bureaucratic, likely to assume too much power, to use its power for political propaganda. This conclusion w?as hailed last week by President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia, who said: "With the mad fanaticism, intolerance and bigotry exhibited in the presidential campaign of 1928 still in mind, one hesitates to think what would happen if a Secretary of Education representative of those powerful but discreditable traits were to find himself...
...clearing house of the oil business, composed of 4,300 individuals from all the companies of importance? met last week in Chicago resolved to take Oil more firmly in hand. Secretary of Commerce Lamont was there to tell Oil that it must regard the public interest, must cease the "mad wastes" of the past. In the air was talk of setting up an Oil Dictator, to govern the petroleum business as baseball and cinema are governed. Mentioned (to his great delight) as possible oil tsar at a possible salary of $250.000 a year, was Vice President Charles Curtis...
...title-play is like Alice's mad tea-party in Wonderland. At a continuous Christmas dinner lasting from before the Civil War to the present you watch a midwestern family pass from one generation to another. New characters appear; old ones go out the dark portal of death; as they get older they put on white wigs. As they grow up they say the same things their fathers & mothers said...