Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt put all first, second and third-class postmasterships under the Civil Service (TIME, Aug. 3), declared the Journal, Postmaster General Farley called for an examination of new applicants for the West Point job under the old rules, which permitted appointment of anyone of the three top candidates. Hopping mad, the Journal editorialized thus about Miss Harrington...
...Boiling mad, the Democratic National Committee burned up the wires to 'Quoddy to get the facts. The War Department, in Charge of the Maine project, issued denials. Army officers declared that only no loaves of bread a day had been purchased at 'Quoddy in July, denied that any pie had ever been purchased, got an affidavit from William Doyle, 'Quoddy's garbage contractor, who solemnly swore: "At no time have I ever seen pie in the garbage or swill...
...treating the phenomenal universe as the only real one. Mystics, mediums, the natives of Tibet, are "radios," treating the phenomenal universe as supremely unimportant, the creations of their inward visions as realities of the same quality as things in the objective world. "If we are sane, they are mad," says Author Gorer, who suggests that the mind may be a source of energy, that this mental energy may be very pronounced in great religious teachers, that possession of it may be, like inborn musical talent or genius, developed with training and practice...
...strain. A thick-headed Loyalist arrested early in the War spent a year in the water-soaked mines of New gate prison, escaped, wasted the rest of his life wandering through the woods looking for his wife. Genteel Mrs. Demooth, most cultivated lady of Deerfield Settlement, went raving mad, shouted Biblical curses at her maid. Feeble-minded Nancy picked up with a raiding British soldier, bore his child in the woods during an attack, was saved by an Indian who took her for his squaw. Organized warfare in the wilderness was a prolonged nightmare, with militiamen quarreling with regulars, regulars...
...reign stature, Herod married Mariamne, daughter of the dynasty he had supplanted. In doing so he allied himself with a family that constantly plotted his overthrow. Forthright, candid in his ruthlessness, Herod could not cope with the subtlety of the courtiers and diplomats of Jerusalem, was almost driven mad by real or imaginary conspiracies around him. He killed his wife, his mother-in-law, his three oldest sons, even shook his great prestige at Rome by the frenzy of his conspiracy-hunting. Growing more and more active as an administrator as he wiped out the members of his family...