Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disease spread to a dozen, a score, a hundred. Patients lay moaning in bed. Others, whipped by mad fear, beat against the screened windows, grappled with attendants. Some of the attendants fell ill. All were panicky. Every night kitchen boys and orderlies disappeared. Over 45 ran away...
...revelation from heaven that he was Christ and in an attack of catatonic [mad] excitement became violent," ended up in a State hospital as a victim of schizophrenia...
...Southland with his band. And don't get the impression that when you go down there, you're going to hear fourteen or fifteen men earnestly endeavoring to blow their (and your) heads off. Far from this, Fats carries only six men in his band. But between some really mad kidding around, they get off some swell jazz for both listening and dancing...
Though the picture ends with President Roosevelt pleading for peace, peace was the last thing The Fight for Peace encouraged. Audiences tough enough to stick it out until the last bomb-burst were as dazed as some survivors of the air raids they had just seen, or as fighting mad as others. For The Fight for Peace shared this much with great art-though it was unable to tell its audience what to do for peace, it let them see with their own eyes what Poet T. S. Eliot meant when he wrote: "I will show you fear...
...York World tells what Woodrow Wilson told him the night before Wilson asked Congress to declare war on Germany: would mean that we should lose our heads along with the rest and stop weighing right and wrong . . . that a majority of people in this hemisphere would go war-mad, quit thinking, and devote their energies to destruction...