Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...showcase whose bullet-proof glass windows he had removed, the better to be seen and rained on, while he reviewed a parade of 32 Governors in closed cars,* of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Cadets, Middies, CCC andT NYA sloshing through the deluge. Nor was it the mad tea afterwards when 3,000 visitors crammed the White House. The last act belonged to the author of the 20th Amendment which set forward this inauguration and those that will follow from March 4 to Jan. 20. Said Senator George William Norris of Nebraska: "They are all trying to blame...
First everybody fought the guards, 25 swimming out into the river and 24 swimming back when shots were fired over their heads. Then the Negroes fought the whites. National Guardsmen withdrew outside the prison walls, announcing that twelve prisoners were dead and that all had "absolutely gone mad." Governor Chandler had previously putted through the gates in an outboard motorboat. "Get us out of here, Happy!" the inmates yelled. "We're gonna drown if yon don't!" "Happy" yelled back: "It's a hell of a mess, boys, but I'm going...
...Department of English shys away from Public Speaking much as it would from a mad dog, locking up the rude intruder in an academic cellar along with a bone or two. Since to the scholars of literature oral English is not quite respectable and nowheres near par with the other sides of the language, the arrangements for courses in speaking are farcical, tending to discourage the students. The three half courses, for only one of which is credit given, are the minimum the Department thinks it can establish without starting an open revolt. Professor Packard has built the nucleus...
...bargain collectively with the union. . . . What would General Motors officials do when the injunction was served upon them? First, they would probably laugh and say to the sheriff, "Don't be silly, that judge holds a union card." And on sober second thought they would probably get mad and want to do something about such a judicial process...
...shadow of a plot helps to sustain the interest. The great Hannes and his new protege are made the "foxes" in a hunt on skis. Distinguished by caps, the two set out on the trail. Soon a mad chase ensues, and up great slops of crusty snow, down mountains perilous with crevices, and over the expansive ranges of the Tyrol the two are tracked by fifty pairs of skis. Rich comedy is afforded by a ludicrous dwarf and giant pair, whose antics on skis are similar to those in last year's "Slalom...