Word: mad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Raymond Cyrus Hoiles, 69, who already owned six newspapers in five states,* bought the Odessa American, in partnership with 20 employees, for more than $200,000. Like the Chicago Tribune, whose editorials he reprints on days when his own spleen is small, Publisher Hoiles knows how to make people mad and make...
...lawyer as stating that "any woman who has enough money and still expects her husband to support her is nothing but a high-class prostitute," also went into the financial side of his marriage: "She is trying to blackmail me. I know the defendant to be a money-mad extortioner." And anyway, he added, neither of their Mexican divorces was legal, and so he figures that he is still the lawful wedded husband...
Novelist Waugh, a fellow Catholic, thinks that Greene intended to make a saint out of Sinner Scobie. Yet, he says, to will your own damnation "for the love of God is either a very loose poetical expression or a mad blasphemy." Waugh admires The Heart of the Matter as a novel but disapproves its theology. His opinion is by no means the verdict of all Catholic critics; the book has been banned as obscene in Eire, acclaimed by one of England's leading Jesuits, Father Martindale. And it has quickly become a bestseller in both England...
...Float. At University High field, he taught Patton how to "float." The idea was, to explode off the blocks and drive like mad for 50 yards. Then he was to shift gears, i.e., relax while maintaining maximum speed (the way Patton describes it: "You just settle down and go along for the ride...
...Bers took his eccentricities for granted; they knew that all the Tolstoys were mildly mad. (Devout Brother Dimitry Tolstoy attended divine service every saint's day-in the chapel of a local prison.) One of young Leo's favorite whims was to let chance decide important questions. "If she takes that final high note well," he said to himself one evening when Tatyana was singing, "then I shall deliver my letter today" (a proposal of marriage to sister Sonya). Tatyana took her note superbly; Tolstoy instantly delivered...