Word: mad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...archenemy, the Rocky Mountain News. Most of the city's railway brotherhoods were for him. So were most of its C.I.O. unions, 300 of 412 Republican precinct committeewomen. Quigg Newton's campaign was a model of politeness. Instead of berating Old Ben (Denver wasn't exactly mad at him, it was just tired of him) Newton simply called for change...
...piped young Artur.* Once a gadabout bachelor ("My life is too naughty; I cannot write it"), he married at 43, now has two boys and two girls, youngest five months. Says Artur: "Boys are inclined to smile tolerantly and say 'Papa is a fine fellow-but a little mad.' But daughters-they understand-and adore! They know instinctively that an artist remains something of a child to the end of his days...
...Ceres, goddess of grain, stands pre-eminent at the very top of the building. In the grain pits below, more grain is bought & sold than anywhere else in the world, sometimes months before it is even grown. Last week a TIME correspondent paid a visit to Ceres' slightly mad court...
...What was all the excitement about today? He keeps an eye on the pit and says: 'It's a nervous market. On Wednesday the Government came back into the cash wheat market after being out for three, four months. . . . The market turned into a mad house. May wheat went up the limU-from $2.67 to $2.77. Then Thursday morning it went up to $2.85. Then the market was top-heavy on the buying side; those who had bought took their profits. The price started skidding . . . went all the way down to $2.67. just where it was when...
...Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) was originally, a weird, ferocious melodrama about a power-mad hypnotist (Werner Krauss) and his tool, a murderous somnambulist (Conrad Veidt). It was intended as an attack on authoritarianism. But the director cooked up a story "frame" (i.e., he had the main story told by an asylum inmate) which made the heroes (and the authors) seem mad. Authority emerged as a benign force, and the whole point of the original story was sidetracked. The popular device of the "framing story," Dr. Kracauer explains, shows the German mind introversively withdrawing into a shell...