Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taken off all except a loin cloth when he landed at Southampton (TIME, Jan. 20, et seq.) and had walked barefoot the 80 miles to London, seeking thus to impress the World with his holy resolve to make the Naval Conference a success, Englishmen would have thought him mad...
Dear is the name of Jerome Sixtus Ricard to California Catholics, especially dear to his students in astronomy and meteorology in the University of Santa Clara. Famed is his name among U. S. astronomers. For he whom they were once inclined to describe as as a "mad priest" is now ranked with astronomy's important names...
...child. When the hostile nobility banded against him he saved the Grand Duchess by sacrificing his infant son, inviting death for himself. "The Patriot" (Der Patriot) is the story from which was taken the famed cinema of the same name (in which Cinemactor Emil Jannings played the mad Emperor Paul). It is the story of Count Fahlen, cold and cynical military governor of St. Petersburg, who played a complicated conspirator's game against his mad master, and apologized with his death. The cinema was good, the story is better...
Small boys, being compounded of snaps, snails and puppydogs' tails, do.not worry their mothers when they get banged up playing at school. But last week it was a mad-babbling crowd of mothers that pushed and scrambled to get into the play-yard of Holy Cross Parochial School in Brooklyn. Above the clanging of ambulances, the exhortations of police reserves, panicky rumors flew. Not until the ambulances had all come and gone was the story truly known: a swarm of little girls, playing games at recess, had chosen the covering of an ashpit for "base." Under their jumpings...
...Ireland, as everyone has been told, there are no snakes, in Great Britain there are almost no mad dogs. Last week. while Nosko's Buster caused an uproar in the New York Times, London news-sheets became exercised over a campaign led by the Canine Defense League and supported mainly in the Morning Post...