Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Electrocuted. Joyce Shepard. murderer of Sheriff Bob Smith and Deputy Sheriff Jake Owens of Fisher County, Tex.; at Huntsville, Tex. Sentenced two years ago, Shepard refused to eat, to wear clothes, acted mad so convincingly he was declared insane. In the asylum he dropped his role too soon, was found normal. Robert Blake, his cellmate, also condemned, wrote a magazine article which was made into The Last Mile, a Broadway smash-hit which closed last week after a 36-week run. Great thrill of the play was the prisoner's hoarse repeated cry, "Jones! Oh Jones!" which real Convict...
...10th, 1930, Dartmouth students were ambling through the customary groove of Hanover life in peaceful contemplation of spring, when lo and behold there came murmurs and growlings and editorials and tension, and then the fury of open revolt. Dartmouth had gone "shorts" mad, Hanover and neighboring merchants were besieged with orders for shorts of any description, and the campus became a colorful pageant of bare legs and bizarre shorts. Those who could not purchase abbreviations, hacked off their trousers and flaunted legs which never faced public eye before. Led by the Dartmouth and other organizations the movement spread rapidly...
Scene: the turbulent British Labor Party Annual Conference, meeting last week at Llandudno, Wales, most delegates fighting mad because so many men are out of work...
...buried. In effort to escape being merely his father's son he became in turn a Baptist, a Roman Catholic, again a Jew. Before suicide he wrote: "My situation is that of a dead man. When God wants to destroy a person he first converts him into a mad...
...Love field, busiest airport of the southwest, slipped Coste's red sesquiplane "Point d'lnterrogation" last week at the end of a 1,700-mi. flight from New York. The mob of 20,000 rushed the lines of police and national guardsmen with as much mad enthusiasm as though the plane had flown direct from Paris. At length a wedge of guards forced a lane to the Southern Air Transport administration building where Mayor J. Waddy Tate and Attorney Cullen F. Thomas (for Governor Moody) offered the visitors the freedom of Dallas...