Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more fun than a brisk game of splitting verbal hairs. One of the first to take up Senator Borah's challenge was Arizona's bland Senator Ashurst, who attempted to obliterate the Borah argument by a reductio ad absurdum which resulted in dialog that sounded like the Mad Hatter's tea party...
Fuad I came to the throne poor, yet left a private fortune of $50,000,000 to Farouk I, thus making the new King probably the wealthiest Egyptian. His Late Majesty accomplished this by confiscating the estates of the mad Prince Ahmed Seif Eddin. That he was mad or at least mad at King Fuad, the Prince proved decisively by firing a bullet which lodged in His Majesty's throat. This made Fuad I often cough and gurgle horribly, and His Majesty carried the bullet to his tomb...
...Hopping mad was Chicago officialdom when the La Follette findings were released. Far from demonstrating remorse, officials were preparing to prosecute, for conspiracy to riot, some 65 strikers, sympathizers and bystanders who were arrested during the riot. Moreover a six-man coroner's jury had just white-washed the police with a report of "justifiable homicide...
...Mad Dog" Vincent Coll, the "baby killer" whose careless slugs were suspected when a rampaging Manhattan machine gun ripped into a four-year-old boy asleep in his carriage, cried to Liebowitz and Liebowitz got him off. Vera Stretz shot her German lover, Dr. Fritz Gebhardt, dead. Liebowitz saved her. Violinist Mischa Rosenbaum, last April murdered his pupil and mistress, Julia Nussenbaum, in a drunken orgy, slobbered to Liebowitz. The County believed Liebowitz' boast that they could never get a first-degree conviction, accepted a guilty plea of second-degree murder...
...Brooklyn, promising a vice cleanup. He was defeated by some 60,000 votes. Such causes as the Scottsboro trials, if of no elective advantage, may crown the Liebowitz career with a judgeship. As for the clients his talents have freed, not all have lived to praise him. Liebowitz sent "Mad Dog" Coll back into the streets. Brother gangsters wiped him out within a week. Convict Max Becker, missing the electric chair for the prison guard's murder, went back to face prison guards who did not forget. The electric chair burns men. Solitary confinement burns minds. Max Becker...