Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rock and let it go for all she was worth; and it hit me behind the ear. Behind the ear it hit me; and then the little sissy ran. I mean she hid behind the matron's skirts. It's a damn good thing. I mean I was mad would have spanked the little pickanninny's bottom. But the matron was forbidding; I mean she was a big woman. And she was kindly; that is she patted the pickanniny's head; and the little chocolate drop sobbed she was sorry. And my heart softened. I mean I actually took...
...village square on the day of the marriage ceremonies. All the ghetto rabble was there, begging for alms, food, drink. One gay interlude came when a ragged peasant orchestra evoked a reedy little tune from the big band in the pit. Thereafter the tension grew grimmer. The beggars danced madly while Leah swept in to whirl despairingly with a groveling hunchback, a hideous, pawing old crone. Rocca's orchestra reached a frenzied climax as Leah faced her bridegroom, suddenly screamed like one gone mad. Just as abrupt was the hush when the verdict was passed. "A dybbuk...
...Academy was last week spared such a ruckus as marked last year's show. Then, for the first time in history, an Associate Member of the Academy, woolly-haired Stanley Spencer, 43, got mad because the Hanging Committee had rejected his St. Francis and the Birds, showing a fat man in a barnyard, and The Lovers, showing a woman carrying an elderly man in her arms. He demanded the return of three other canvases which the Committee had accepted. When the Committee refused to return them, Stanley Spencer resigned from the Academy...
...This is mad persecution advanced to the most pitiable stages of New Deal-irium," roared Royalist Jones. "While I, of course, realize that few business concerns could withstand such continued and powerful efforts at sabotage, nevertheless I warn against the dangers of vicious governmental malevolence bent on riding roughshod over individual rights and Constitutional guarantees hitherto respected by our Government...
...rich mamas and papas withdraw their patronage. A libel suit to bring the matter out into the air miscarries, with the help of Mrs. Mortar (Catherine Doucet), and the fortunes of all three accused are ruined. So runs the tale, a very interesting and at times absorbing one. The mad little girl is beautifully palyed by 'Bonita Granville and all the other characters are competently sketched. Merle Oberon's ingenue to Joel McCrea's Young Hero is often delightful...