Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cheered themselves hoarse. This was the final act of Brazil's revolution. The gauchos of Rio Grande do Sul (the southern state in which the revolt started), had vowed: "We'll hitch our ponies to the obelisk in Rio!"-and they had. Rio de Janeiro went almost mad last week. From 10 o'clock in the morning until 6 o'clock at night-when Rio Grande do Sul's victorious Dr. Getulio Vargas arrived to be proclaimed Provisional President of Brazil a million people milled through the streets, cheered the red-green- &yellow flags...
...Czechoslovakia, as Leopold Grund stood at the altar waiting to be married, he went mad with hydrophobia from a dog bite of weeks before...
...shoulders. Their "Al" Smith was 400 mi. north, and before he became President would be 800 mi. away in Rio de Janeiro. But fortunately he had left behind a young man, one Osvaldo Aranha as acting president of the state. To his office in Porto Alegre rushed the joy-mad mob, carried him with roars of triumph to the Grande Hotel, put him on a balcony. Three times the young man tried but failed to speak, so full was his heart...
...Author. Blonde, bobbed-haired, born in Bergen (Norway), Martha Ostenso arrived early in the U. S. She had been writing only two years when her Wild Geese won (1925) a $13,500 Dodd-Mead-Famous-Players-Pictorial Review Prize. She is 30, unmarried. Other books: The Dark Dawn, The Mad Carews, The Young May Moon...
...says, "Huneker and Mencken did more than any other two men of the century to thin the ranks of the literary stud-horses of Vassar and the fillies of Harvard." Mr. De Casseres forgets that at times he himself is nothing more than a just-mad gelding going through the motions of an aphrodisiacal stallion. But that is the privilege of one whose prose and thought, to twist his own words, "is a boreal rhetoric, a hissing, headlong ecstasy, the passion that coils in verbs and nouns and suddenly leaps forth in an orgasm of adjectives and epithets...