Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mad as a wet hen was George V in 1935 when he offered Australia his third son, the roly-poly Duke of Gloucester, as Governor General, and Australia declined with thanks. A lot of trouble has turned up in the world since then, however, what with the Italians showing their muscle in the Mediterranean, the Germans down the Danube and the Japanese all over the Far East. It behooves the Empire to stand fast, and a great cementing gesture was made last week when George VI was graciously pleased to appoint H. R. H. the Duke of Kent...
...Hopping mad, certain independents surreptitiously undercut the official prices Big Steel had set for the industry. For a while Big Steel ignored this as a petty annoyance, but fortnight ago the buying demand of the automobile industry forced even Big Steel to shade its prices some $4 a ton, lowering cold-rolled sheets to $62 compared with $73 last spring. When an independent then cut the price another $2, Philip Murray was not the only steel man to fret. With the industry working at only 53% of capacity, it was clear that such price-cutting, if continued, must mean heavy...
...Mad Miss Manton (RKO Radio). Screwball comedy and screwball murder mystery combined, more happily than usual, with Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene and Frances Mercer...
...Powys and Ford belong to the same genus of bookworm, their appetites differ in numerous details. Ford Madox Ford, "an old man mad about writing," prefers his classical diet served with French sauce ("the Mediterranean as against the Nordic tradition"); his main concern is with "fine"' writing, literary form. Lively, rambling, witty, he is at his best in picking out single quotations; at his worst when he strays beyond "pure" literature, as when he declares Dostoyevsky to be "the greatest single influence on the world of today...
...Washington to demand that the Government's present 8.3% cotton loans be upped to the 11.75? maximum (75% of parity) possible under the Act. There they were told that the President was too busy, advised to take their grievances to AAA. Cotton Ed snorted: "These farmers are mad. Why shouldn't they be? ... I have served here under five Presidents preceding this one. I never was refused an audience and I never was asked what my business was before this." "Do you want to be quoted on that?" cautioned his secretary...