Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Retorted Arthur Morgan, hopping mad: ". . . Mouthpieces for Mr. Lilienthal have been suggesting or forecasting my resignation ever since...
...Human Hearts, In Old Chicago, The Buccaneer, The Adventures of Marco Polo, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Gold Is Where You Find It, Hollywood Hotel, The Goldwyn Follies, Mad About Music...
...Mad About Music (Universal). Greatest asset of deficit-ridden Universal Pictures Co. Inc. is wholesome, rich-voiced, 16-year-old Deanna Durbin. When her first featured picture, Three Smart Girls, was started in 1936, Universal, newly taken over from Carl Laemmle Sr. by a syndicate headed by Banker John Cheever Cowdin, was $1,835,419.07 in the red as of Oct. 30. Three Smart Girls cost about $300,000, has thus far grossed almost $2,000,000. Six months ago Deanna's second film, 100 Men and a Girl, was released and immediately justified the added expenditure allowed...
...Guffey arrived . . . fighting mad. . . .'All bets are off,' said Guffey. 'I am a candidate for Governor, come hell or high water. . . .' Matt McCloskey raced across the room, shook his fist under Guffey's nose. . . . Red with rage, Dave Lawrence, who the night before took himself out of the race, jumped into the free-for-all. . . . 'Now I understand,' he bellowed, 'why I didn't get the support for my candidacy from persons who . . . should have been in my corner...
...fields. His clairvoyance and wit, when the great Potiphar himself speaks to him, start him on his way to becoming first Potiphar's reader and later his steward upon Mont-kaw's death. But most of Joseph in Egypt is given over to a study of the mad passion of Potiphar's wife for Joseph-a passion that, in Mann's account, transforms her from a cool and indolent lady of fashion to a desperate, pitiable, hagridden monster, willing to consider the murder of her husband and finally abandoning all shame in the terrific scene that...