Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week the Democratic Governor of the most populous state in the Union stalked up & down in his office. He was thoroughly mad. He was not mad at Republicans. His chief ally was the Republican-Fusion Mayor of the biggest U. S. city. But he was thoroughly mad at Democrats, particularly at his own Secretary of State, and at the Postmaster General...
...Massey), the eldest brother. Mariella's husband is smug and blind, but David's wife Judy (Adrianne Allen) sees clearly. Because she likes Mariella, because she loves David and is grateful to him for marrying her, Judy steps under the falling side of a burning barn. Almost mad with resentment, grief and frustration, David strikes crashing discords on the piano, breaks plates. It is Mariella who persuades him that Judy intended her sacrifice to remove, not to create, a barrier...
...have picked off all but three of the troop. None of the three can fly but Morelli (Wallace Ford) and the sergeant dismount the plane's machine gun, set fire to the plane and get back to the oasis under cover of the smoke. Sanders (Boris Karloff) goes mad and gets his bullet when he is stumbling across the sand with his clothes torn like a prophet's, carrying a cross. Morelli is killed trying to drag him back to safety. The sergeant has the machine gun and when the Arabs, veiled like ghosts, at last dare...
...have an occasional padded payroll. . . . I think in the main [Civil Works projects] are three or four times as good as the projects under relief. . . . Political interference has been a difficulty. I would not say it is serious but it has been a difficulty. I have quit getting mad about it. . . . I am amazed at the number of people who are trying to horn in on making a little money. . . . The number who have been implicated in graft is very small although it looms large in the public's mind. It may be my own fault. . . . I may have made...
...crucial game, since little less than a miracle could stop Purdue, which has passed the toughest part of its schedule, from winning the Big Ten Championship. Its team, about the same as last year's, has five scoring players, all from Indiana - a state so basketball-mad that business practically stands still during the finals of the annual tournament of 800 high schools. The crack shot is Norman Cottom, a sandy-haired forward who has scored 63 points in six games and bids strong to finish as high scorer of the Conference. Best player, by a shade...