Word: mad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists & Millionaires." In clipped Groton-Yale accent, incongruous in the homely American setting, he damned the Democrats as tools of the "Communist-dominated P.A.C." Then he launched into criticism of "money-mad millionaires" who "dominate the Republican Party in most of the eastern states." Eastern Republicans, he snorted, are "fertile in expedients which was shown by the nomination of Wendell Willkie and Dewey, nominations made to prevent the election of a Republican President. . . . They think they can . . . nominate another renegade Westerner by scaring us with the atom bomb...
...Lieut. General Holland M. ("Howlin' Mad") Smith, boss of the Marine Corps island assaults in the Pacific and veteran of 40 years' service in the Corps, was retired at 64 with the rank of four-star general...
...Star of India) so avidly that he "built a Gaol and Hospital-nearby built a City drain-till his faithful subjects all thought their ruler was insane." When Rustum Beg was awarded only a lowly C.I.E. (Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire), he got so mad "he disendowed the Gaol-stopped at once the City drain," installed his harem in the hospital...
...still pale and nervous as he prepared to close it last week. U.S. Chief Prosecutor Robert Houghwout Jackson knew that not merely the courtroom's obedient microphones but also the ears of history were listening to his words. Jackson tried to show that the trial's 'mad and melancholy" mass of evidence, which the U.S. prosecution had helped compile with masterly precision, was not, as the defense had claimed, merely a disconnected series of misfortunes. Said Jackson: "Each part of the plan fitted into every other. . . . The armament industries were fed by the concentration camps. The concentration...
...thrilling, analytical stories" with Burris Jenkins cartoons and pictures of plump, popeyed Craig Rice looking for clues-i) in the Herald-American morgue, 2) crouched over the washtub where Suzanne Degnan's body was dissected. "I've fought like hell with the American, and I got so mad at Reutlinger that I almost punched him in the puss," said she. "But they're going to go along with me. . . . Heirens didn't do this. Call it woman's intuition. But if he did, then I'll just pack my bags quietly and steal...