Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...almost pitifully humorous to watch the frantic manoeuvers of the New England textile owners to stem the tide which is carrying the cotton manufacturing business elsewhere. In their mad fury they hurl insults at Wallace, pile imprecations on the Administration, indeed, almost blame Providence itself because New England has ceased to be able to complete with the rising industry of the South...
...Never mind that now," interrupted the Mad Hatter. "If the universe is going on forever and our lives will be extended indefinitely, then we'll have all the time there is to do everything that...
Hottest defense of all came from the nation's Federal Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins in Washington. Newshawks who trooped into his office to twit him about boondoggles and ancient safety pins were quickly sobered. He was mad clean through. "Investigate?" barked he. "No! There's nothing the matter. Those are good projects, all of them. People who don't understand foreign languages sometimes laugh when they hear them. Dumb people make fun of things they can't understand...
...there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. But when a successful businessman, after meeting a series of setbacks, develops crotchets and then suddenly goes to pieces, even his physician will call his condition a nervous breakdown. Technically the businessman is suffering from a neurosis. He is not mad. Nor is he apt to go insane. His inability to cope with people and circumstances has thrown him into a complex mental-emotional turmoil and shaken his entire personality. With a patient, learned psychiatrist as his guide he may clamber out of the debacle and regain a stout hold...
...Whatever it is," said the Mad Hatter, "it makes me dizzy even to think about it, so I do wish you would come and play with us. Mock Turtle is waiting, and Tweedledum won't play unless you're there, and I know The Owl is getting impatient. And that reminds me Alice, I suppose you've heard The Owl's definition of a physiologer...