Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mirrors in Versailles. Followed 40 years of peace. Hindenburg climbed slowly to a Major Generalship and was given command of the East Prussian frontier. This he decided would one day be a great battlefield. He painstakingly studied every inch of that desolate swampy land and became known as "the mad Old Man of the Lakes" and "General Mud." In 1911, 64 years old, he retired from the army, certain that war would never come in his lifetime...
...article imputed no political motive to the President, yet it made Herbert Hoover boiling mad. He had purposely tried to keep the debt holiday plan above partisan politics, yet here was a newspaper daring to talk about the political benefits that would accrue to him. He was so mad by the time he reached the White House that he composed a long, fiery telegram to the United Press in which he protested against its discussion of domestic politics in relation to such an important inter national problem, demanded a public apology to the country. No apology was forthcoming because...
...Then," on the pattern of Brisbane's "Today." There too he found opportunity to dis- gorge some of the bile which his pornoGraphic experience had secreted within him. He wrote, in his office after working hours nearly every night for a year, a version of his five mad years on the Graphic. Last week the story appeared as a novel, Hot News (Macatdey...
...death last February (TIME. Feb. 9) it was found that the Taft estate left provision for paying the Zoo deficit which now includes that of the Opera (formerly paid separately). Ravinia Park, Chicago's Louis Eckstein is perhaps the only melophile virtually to own an opera since mad King Ludwig II of Bavaria who in the middle of the last century sat many a time alone while his troupe sang for him in a great empty theatre. As president and chief guarantor of Ravinia Opera Mr. Eckstein is in his own way a mad king: he has paid...
...when done wrong, and Lyricist Howard Dietz and Composer Arthur Schwartz (The Little Show, Three's A Crowd) to demonstrate how good a revue can be when done right. Mr. Kaufman has first innings, sets his colleagues a stiff pace by presenting as a prelude a mad kaleidoscope of musicomedy cliches. There is an insanely pointless blackout, a senseless, sugary melody sung by ingenue and juvenile, a ludicrous torch song. A gesticulating chorus stamps out shouting...