Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three hours later Berlin was bedlam. Boulevards were pack-jammed with people shouting and sobbing. Several correspondents, defeated by the job of trying to describe a nation mad with joy, cabled that Germany's transports of exultation were "INDESCRIBABLE...
...land where the words for democracy and politics were coined, sly old Politico Eleutherios Venizelos, whose first name means "Liberty," had last week resorted to civil war because he lost the last elections (TIME, March 13, 1933). "Venizelos has gone mad," cried Premier Tsaldaris. But everyone knew that the old wizard of Greek politics must have known he had a 50-50 chance before he risked open revolution. Last week those were still the odds...
...bolt all agreements, start a rate war to the finish unless Bernstein was brought into line. But how could he be brought into line when he was not even present? Frantic messages were sent to Bernstein's Hamburg headquarters, demanding his whereabouts. Hamburg reported Tycoon Bernstein "missing." Hopping mad, the Conference voted to postpone further meetings until Herr Bernstein arrived in Paris...
...boat?" asked a newshawk. Mr. Wells did not, wished he had. Off to the lounge scurried the newshawks to tell Maria Gregorievna Rasputin Solovief of the great man's disappointment. Said she, in German: "I am so sorry ... er ... who is he?" The daughter of Russia's "Mad Monk" Gregory Rasputin was on her way to Peru, Ind., to ride bareback, train lions and tigers for the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus. For nine years Trainer Rasputin has been traveling with European circuses. Imprisoned during the Revolution, she escaped, fled from Russia to Siberia to France, where her husband died...
Despite the alarmist tone evident in news despatches from Europe, no immediate crisis is likely. No matter how many men Hitler may press into the German army, no matter how large an air force he may have created, even so mad a fanatic as he cannot seriously contemplate taking on France, Italy, Russia and Britain at the same time. It is thus of paramount importance that these four nations make known their stand at once; otherwise, as Karl Radek recently pointed out in "Izvestia," Hitler may well take Europe's fate into his own hands and initiate another phase...