Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House gentleman what answered de phone up there got mad and said, 'Quit calling de President,' but I keeps on and finally gets...
...Patrick Hastings for the prosecution, Sir William Jowitt for the defense. Handsome, hollow-eyed Princess Irina Alexandrovna Youssoupov was suing Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Ltd. for damages. She charged that she had been libeled and her character defamed by a rape episode in MGM's cinema Rasputin, the Mad Monk. The courtroom was jampacked by a curious crowd which knew that for the first time the true story of how Rasputin met his death was to be told under oath...
According to the publishers of "Mad Hatter's Village," by Mary Cavendish Gore, the authoress' first published novel, she were out three different typewriters composing twelve earlier ones. Different publishers asked Miss Gore, or sometimes the pseudonymous persons she pretended to be, to revise five of these novels but she spurned such requests. However, she completely rewrote "Mad Hatter's Village" which was a conversation in its original form...
...Mad Hatter's Village" will be reviewed shortly in the CRIMSON...
...Bible times, the significance of the word had passed, in its general use, into the sense of a partner, or sharer, as in "Why smitest thou thy fellow?" and "a fellow also with Jesus," but it also has the sense of a trivial or disreputable person, as in "this mad fellow," or "this is a postilent fellow." In later English literature, this last sense became quite prevalent, as in Pope's line. "Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow." But the ancient sense remains common in this country in the sense of the companion or mate--though...