Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ahab, the vindictive old salt who sailed the southern oceans screaming for more canvas, cursing tired crews, laughing wildly into the gale as he hunted the Great White Whale, Moby Dick, who had cost him a leg. Last week U. S. mariners heard a voice reminiscent of the great mad Ahab-almost...
...Hougfiton Mifflin ($1.75). Excerpt: "America . . . A Mad Country ... In a country boasting millions of machines, storerooms are bursting with goods; corn is burned in place of coal; milk is poured into the river. . . . What does this mean? Have people lost their senses, or what is the matter? . . . Why is this done? Who profits...
...mad that I should tarry next to such grotesquerie...
...quickly. For effects of grandeur and to isolate the various spheres of activity, Producer Geddes has resorted to a battery of large colored spotlights. Give Mr. Geddes a set of spotlights and you are very likely to disregard the play. No one pays much attention to Ophelia's mad scene because just then Mr. Geddes displays a most extraordinary lighting trick: bathed in saffron light, the actors cast bottle-green shadows...
...want to broadcast sunshine. Give Dr. Brinkley your medical problems. He will tell you the truth even if it makes you mad. I discharge my obligation to society when I urge you to have an examination every six months. Ninety-nine out of 100 won't, but I'm after that hundredth. Before you have your prostate gland removed send 25^ to the Brinkley Hospital for booklets...