Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the owners of the rum-sow propositioned the President of the U. S. in such a way as to make the Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Navy active and whacking mad...
...gibbet many times but made him a popular hero. Latude, whom a whim of Madame la Pompadour kept thirty-five years fast incarcerated in the Bastille, retained his sanity by taming rats and spiders in his cell. Then there is the whimsical tale of Benvenuto Cellini and the mad constable of St. Angelo...
...offering "The World Changes." The pioneer mother warns her son that money only leads to ruin, not happiness, but he goes on with his cattle business, in which he rises to be the big Chicago packer. He lived to see his wealth make his wife hate him and go mad, turn his sons into rotten social parasites, who uniformly come to a bad end and produce more children who are well on their way to an equally bad end. This same doleful tale was told in "He Loved a Woman," which was at the University a few weeks...
...Longster, called a special election, to be held eight days after his proclamation. He boldly named Widow Kemp as "the unopposed Democratic nominee because there will not be time to hold a primary." At this latest piece of the "Kingfish's" political audacity, the 6th District was hopping mad. At mass meetings voters shouted "Hitlerism!", screamed that Messrs. Long and Allen should be lynched...
...mind, Brown hopes to be a hero in the mind of the woman he loves. Love is a strange thing indeed. He is married. He and his wife have adopted a baby. But he is frank about it. He is sincere in his love. He is infatuated. He is mad. But he is not a crook. Poor, deluded Brown--he fell for that she-wolf in sheep's clothing." TERTIUS...