Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since all European prisoners must bear it, Marseille prison physicians certified Mio Kraj to be "slightly unbalanced." They then returned him to his cell and the peeping continued, despite irate protests by Mio Kraj's lawyer: "You are driving my client mad...
...fire, because not only Judge Wilson but Messrs. Harrison, Cummings and Farley were denounced in the article. Stuart Godwin, the Interior's pressagent, had a toothache and could not see the Press. Secretary Ickes returned from Manhattan to find matters in a mess and Senator Harrison, mad clean through, hot-footing to the White House. Hastily Mr. Ickes announced: "I did not authorize it. I would not have authorized it. I did not know it was given out until I was told over long distance telephone in New York there had been an escape from the cave of winds...
Died, Thomas Alexander Boyd, 36, author (Through the Wheat, Mad Anthony Wayne, Lighthorse Harry Lee); of cerebral hemorrhage; in Ridgefield, Conn. He left two posthumous works, In Time of Peace (sequel to Through the Wheat) and Poor John Fitch, Inventor of the Steamboat...
...Fyodor Dostoievsky's solemn sermon to the effect that murder will out has been dramatized before and will doubtless be dramatized again. This particular adaptation of the Russian narrative is no less sombre than its predecessors. As Raskolnikoff, the impoverished student who murders a woman pawnbroker with the mad idea that money stolen from her will right a number of wrongs, Morgan Farley is about as wretched a figure as "Ma" Lester, the itinerant dustbin of Tobacco Road. Actor Farley rolls his eyes in terror, clenches his palms, bellows fearfully when his conscience begins to get the better...
...Reverent" Powell was hopping mad...