Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news that we should like to send on to the bookies in New York is the conversation overheard yesterday. It ran something like this: "You know this football team is fighting mad. They're out to beat Holy Cross and then the rest of the season will take care of itself...
Thus in true authoritarian style did Mexico's Boss Plutarco Elias Calles orate in Guadalajara last month. Knowing the violent anticlericalism of Mexico's Revolutionary Government, not even Roman Catholics could be surprised. But alert Catholic priests got hopping mad when they learned that U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels had later got up before a Mexican Seminar and orated as follows...
...Tabasco were forced to strip naked, boys and girls, as part of the sex education instruction. . . . Not only this, but both in Tabasco and Mexico City groups of primary pupils were taken to maternity wards by their teachers to watch actual parturition. Some of these hapless children went stark mad as a result of their horrible experience...
...Happiness lies not in the possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement; in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits." (Has the "thrill of creative effort" been too much for the farmer? If not, why does A.A.A. encourage with financial reward--the gaining of which, according to the President, never brings "happiness"--the reduction of crops? Or isn't it an "achievement" to produce food...
...Cardinals to fame, with the betting odds against them, many people would be only too glad to see them lose, so that the picture is practically littered up with suspects. True to all mystery stories, the most innocent appearing and least suspected is the culprit, who finally goes mad, having perpetrated his dastardly deeds with practically unlimited resources, which include a bomb in the form of a pocket watch, a poisoned mustard jar exchanged for the genuine by a hairy hand under cover of the excitement caused by a firecracker (mind you, in the end, only one person is exposed...