Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just then the Mad Hatter interrupted: "Peter Rabbit is right. Anyway, what's the good of your old physiology...
...Conant and Mr. Bingham have caught the end of the rope that their colleagues are afraid to touch. If they succeed in climbing it, other colleges may try to forget the mad insanity of the twenties by discovering that they too want to train their undergraduates for life not for the grandstand. In Cambridge, at any rate, athletics will be put on an athletic basis...
...casket brides" sent to bewive the men of New France, the effect is bright, colorful and joyfully inane. The damp scenes occur when things attempt to become serious. A Gilbert and Sullivan opus maintains a strain so consistently absurd that it is convincing; "Naughty Marietta" is only sporadically mad, and disturbs the audience by its sudden lapses into sanity. During the voyage to New Orleans, for instance, the cargo of maidens falls into the hands of pirates. These fellows, as villanous a crew as ever infested Penzance, leave their winsome booty strangely inviolate until it is wrested from their grasp...
...Berlin the imperturbable British sent instructions to ask the German Government whether Adolf Hitler's invitation to Sir John Simon still stood; whether, assuming that it stood, the German Government remained anxious to obtain by bargain what they had purported to seize; whether, in effect, the Nazis are mad dogs or gentlemanly players of a gentleman's game...
...youngest member of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company. It was not the occasion she had hoped for. In February she was to have been the heroine of Verdi's Rigoletto. But laryngitis interfered. Her debut, instead, was at a Sunday night concert. Her biggest test: the Mad Scene from Lucia in which an exacting flute kept tabs on her trills and cadenzas...