Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Awash last week, at the edge of the spidery railroad bridge crossing the Awash River (see cut), a Swiss machine gun expert named Whittley was working like mad to protect the only railway in Ethiopia at its most vulnerable point. For this purpose he had at his disposal a carload of Swiss anti-aircraft machine guns of the latest model, all the ammunition he required, and a thousand black soldiers who were the worst shots Expert Whittley had ever seen. Finally he figured out a system to offset his gun crews' miserable marksmanship...
...little trouble on the first score, for even Mrs. Rose is convinced that her impetuous little man has taken leave of his senses. But the best nicknames the pressagent has been able to think up for his boss so far have been "The Rasputin of the Rathskellers," "The Mad Mahout of 42nd Street." "Next year," predicts Mr. Maney, "Rose takes over the Yale Bowl...
...Mad as the stockbrokers of Throgmorton Street, the officers of the Cairo City relayed a rumor extremely offensive to touchy Italian honor, to wit: "Recently an Italian ship which failed on entering Alexandria to salute British warships was forced to return to the sea and re-enter the port with the proper salute." If British admirals in non-British ports were thus humiliating Italian sea captains last week in the manner of traffic policemen, then Europe was indeed at the mercy of an incident...
...Hopping mad was Publisher James Hammond of the Memphis Commercial Appeal, whose prior bid of $200,000 for the Tennessean bonds had been rejected for no given reason. "It is plain," snapped Publisher Hammond, "that an agency of government has violated our national guarantee of a free press, and the revelation is shocking. We have had a situation which is a threat of Fascism...
...candor, of course, quickened the war-scared flight of hoarded gold from London to Manhattan, despite the fact that on arrival it had to be converted into Roosevelt Dollars, with little assurance of possible reconversion into gold and shipment back to Europe later (TIME, Oct. 7). Well might so mad a state of affairs make the Governor of the Bank of England howl, but the Chancellor of Britain's Exchequer is icy Neville Chamberlain, and last week this hook-nosed paragon of Conservatism favored the same London banquet with his stiff upper...