Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mad and swelled up. I have just read three newspapers and also heard the ''Voice of the United States News" over the National Farm and Home Hour, all commenting on the overriding of the President's veto of the "Veterans Bill." Practically no notice is taken of the fact that this was 40% Veterans and 60 % Political Jobholders Bill. Incidentally, the gentlemen who voted to override the veto raised their own wages $1,000 per. The other $500 will come later. I understand that Senator Borah offered an amendment to cut out all salaries over...
...tenth row. During some excitement caused by one cf the wrestlers being hurled from the ring, Cameraman Corvelli popped his flashbulb, aimed his lens at Junior Roosevelt. The latter saw him, ducked forward, but too late. Grinning, Cameraman Corvelli trotted toward an exit. In a flash Roosevelt Jr., boiling mad, was out of his seat and at the cameraman's heels. He over-took him in the lobby, spilled him to the floor, jumped up & down on the camera. Police intervened, companions led Junior Roosevelt away...
...last three months have practically ruined my health. I read the Tribune with my breakfast and I get so darn mad I can't digest my food and my day is spoiled. I read the Daily News before dinner and I get so darn mad I can't digest my food and my evening is spoiled. I spend my nights composing caustic letters to the editors which are never sent and I don't get my sleep. There must be a paper somewhere that has a good word to say for the President and the efforts...
...Crackpot! Crackpot!" echoed many a tough East Side urchin as Teacher walked into her classroom next day. Before long it was plain that, whether or not 1,500 of them were insane, all 36,000 of the city's teachers were hopping mad. Indignant mass-meetings called for a reprimand, for proof, for Dr. Altman's dismissal, for an investigation of his competence by the New York Academy of Medicine. "He sees insanity in everybody," cried Dr. Abraham Lefkowitz of the Teachers Union...
...short distance of Monticello and was so fortunate as to receive the interest and protection of Thomas Jefferson who at that time was the up and coming lawyer of Albemarle, Virginia. Largely through the influence of Jefferson, Lewis joined the army to participate in the Whisky Rebellion and in Mad Anthony's Indian campaign into the land of remorseless scalpings". Lewis escaped being scalped and proved to be so successful a trooper, although he performed no brilliant feats, that he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant...