Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General Butler also was quoted as referring to "mad dogs who are about to break loose in Europe," and as saying Mussolini was "polishing up all the brass hats in Italy...
Before everybody gets too mad about it and follows the suggestion of State Representative Niland, of East Boston, that Harvard be punished by having its buildings taxed, a plea in extenuation might be offered in the fact that Harvard's "goodies" have been conventionally represented for years in the Lampoon as elderly harridans not above snitching a nip of the marster's gin. Still, even this might not be regarded in some circles as so very extenuating after all. --Baltimore...
...p.180 of Paul de Kruif's estimable work Microbe Hunters, the author writes of nineteen Russian peasants, moujiks, who went to Paris (after having been badly mangled by a mad wolf) for the Pasteur treatment of rabies. Dr. (?) de Kruif further relates that all but three of these unfortunates were saved, "and all the world raised a paean of thanks" to Pasteur...
...along comes Dr. Axel Munthe, with his equally estimable book The Story of San Michcle and tells us, on p. 67, of the "terrible episode of the six Russian peasants bitten by a pack of mad wolves and sent to the Institut Pasteur." Dr. Munthe continues with his sorry tale of how these six moujiks all became "raving mad" and the "doomed men" were "helped to a painless death" and "all of the newspapers were full of the most ghastly descriptions of the death of the Russian moujiks...
...expanded. Sales in 1927 were $38,000,000. In 1928 they jumped to $52,000,000. In 1929 a record of $83,000,000 was registered. Growing out of a flush pool (newly opened) in California, Richfield spread service stations far and wide, was a leader in the mad race for gallonage. No territory was considered too competitive for invasion, and early in 1929 Richfield entered New York-New England. Although smaller producers were bought, Richfield could not keep up with its sales and had to buy petroleum on contract from other companies. Richfield's buying contracts made other...