Word: mad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ingle (real name: Ernest Jansen). It all began, he says, when he and his band, the Natural Seven, were playing in a Los Angeles nightclub. One night his vocalist, Karen Tedder, complained that if she had to sing Eden Ahbez' Nature Boy once again, she would go mad. To prove her point, she went into a wacky burlesque of it. "Well," said Red, "sing it that way." She did; and every night the boys put in a few more burps and barks. When they decided to record it, they picked out "instruments" they were sure Petrillo had never thought...
...Republicans were as amiable as the candidate who was mad at nobody. In Columbus, Ohio, Warren was greeted by Senator Robert Taft, who shook his head dubiously over Warren's nonpartisan speech in Salt Lake City (TIME, Sept. 27). "I read with great interest what Governor Warren had to say," said forthright Bob Taft. "You know that is exactly contrary to everything I stand...
Friendly, homy Earl Warren was not mad at anyone. He was simply going out to meet the folks and to show himself, his wife and his pretty 20-year-old daughter Virginia to the voters. He wanted to assure everyone that the nation was fundamentally sound, and that the best way to keep it sound was to elect a Republican administration in November...
...Earl Warren spoke more in sorrow than in anger. He took off for the East, still concentrating on being the candidate who is mad at nobody...
...deep into Africa. Don't try to grasp her. Don't try to penetrate her. Don't get sucked into the whirlpool. The deeper you go, the more poisonous she grows. Take my word for it. You'll end by going mad . . ." Storm and Echo will give many readers the same wrung-out feeling they'd get from seeing a dozen performances of White Cargo...