Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tenth annual National Air Races in Cleveland last week end for prizes handsome enough to cover the cost of a racing plane and a decent burial, the speed-mad fringe of U. S. aviation whistled up a great sound and fury. When it was all over, the pockets of Cleveland Promoters Cliff and Phil Henderson were again lined, only one flier had been killed,† and the whinny of ships racing against borrowed time had proved that aviation still has plenty of broncos...
...some time before being buried on the dump. While police were examining this find, morbid onlookers discovered, 100 ft. away, parts of another, older cadaver, apparently a Negro's. Cleveland's police declared the crimes to be jobs No. 12 and No. 13 of "The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run" (a title conferred by Cleveland newspapers). The mysterious murderer is believed to have murdered at least five women and six men, parts of whose bodies, all skilfully dismembered, have been discovered between 1934 and last week. Counting last week's two, only five of 13 heads have...
Chronic murderer though he may be, Cleveland's "mad butcher" is probably an amateur, compared to a quiet old lady of 81 who died last week in the Taunton (Mass.) State Hospital. She, Jane Toppan, declared before they locked her up in 1902: "It would be safe to say that I killed at least 100 persons...
...Quito, Ecuador's little capital, chanting "Down With Peru! Long Live Ecuador!" Peru's Foreign Minister Carlos Concha was calmer. "In Peru we have not yet lost our heads. Our country is in a process of prosperous development and the Government heads would have to be completely mad to think of war," he said.* Nevertheless, observers allowed that the Oriente still contained plenty of combustibles at week's end as Peru's President General Oscar R. Benavides pushed additional troops into the disputed jungle, concentrated army planes on the fringe to balance the Ecuadorian soldiers reported...
...Hopping mad at recent bombings of British ships by Spanish Insurgents, Elder Statesman David Lloyd George, never willy-worded himself, assailed Great Britain's "twittering little protests," demanded "since when has the British lion been like that?'' In court for misbehavior on a public highway were: Harvard's President Emeritus A. Lawrence Lowell, who had his Massachusetts license permanently revoked after two accidents last August, sued for $35,000 damages; Peter G. Lehman, son of New York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman, who paid a $2 fine for improper parking; German-American Bundleader Fritz Kuhn...