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Word: mad (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...religious cultist whom disciples call "God," could not cease their ecstasy after his New York City "Garden of Eating" sessions. Yelping "It's wonderful," they hippety-hopped out of doors where police arrested them. When Psychiatrists Lauretta Bender & Zuleika Yarrel examined the prisoners, they found that 16 were mad. Considered possibly sane was a woman who refused to accept a widow's pension because "God will provide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Psychiatrists in Washington | 5/27/1935 | See Source »

...ambitious, she read hard, got herself an education. Catherine's only use was as brood mare to the new dynasty, and since her husband would not or could not serve her, the breeders did not much care who did. When she foaled her first-born (afterwards the mad Tsar Paul) it was of little interest to anyone but Catherine that its sire was one Saltykov. The child was immediately taken away from her by the Empress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Big Woman | 5/27/1935 | See Source »

...them would be fooled into war hysteria. Many an intelligent oldster now feels less than proud, remembering the rabid slaverings of himself and the rest of the pack during the hue & cry of the World War. But in 20 years the world-at-large has forgotten how mad it was. Last week those who still had eyes to see and ears to hear were treated to the most dispassionate analysis yet rendered of how and why the U. S. was gradually sucked into Europe's dogfight. Even some statesmen now agree that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Insane Years | 5/6/1935 | See Source »

...supposed to make sense," said the Mad Hatter, "it's U-Boats that the Fuehrer wants to make...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 5/3/1935 | See Source »

...That's not queer at all," interrupted the Mad Hutter, who was feeling very sprite this May morning, "it's just you don't understand logic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 5/3/1935 | See Source »

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