Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Readers whom pseudo-scientific thrillers make mad should not attempt Odd John. Those who like Jules Verne, Rider Haggard, the early H. G. Wells, may safely...
...Boiling mad but keeping his feelings strictly to himself. High Commissioner Sean Lester, a British subject from Dublin, sped directly to Geneva last week. Also to Geneva went the young President of the Senate of Danzig, a heel-clicking Nazi, Arthur Karl Greiser. He stopped at Berlin, as usual, for instructions. Last January his orders were to go to Geneva and behave as 'umbly as Uriah Heep. Last week they were to lie low in Geneva until he was sure the League of Nations was down, then kick with all his might "in the name of all the German...
...Revolution, Peter dear, is when the people go mad," explained Great-aunt Beatrice...
...told you, Peter-because they were mad," replied the flustered Infanta...
...quiet, strong, kindly, while Scarlett grew more venomous in her disappointment. At the fall of Atlanta, Scarlett, to keep her word to Ashley, took Melanie and Melanie's newborn baby through the retreat to the looted plantation. She found the countryside in ruins, her mother dead, her father mad. She almost starved, had to learn to do all the work that Negroes had formerly done for her. She killed a Yankee, worked like a slave keeping the family alive. After the War, Ashley came back, had to refuse Scarlett again despite his growing love and admiration for her. Scarlett...