Word: mad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suddenly Author Katz glanced at the unparalleled scene around her and cried: 'If I do not have a book to read, I shall jo mad. Is it good?" she asked, glancing at her daughter's book...
...Money Mad. In Philadelphia, John Santini pleaded guilty to killing a woman with a file, explained that she was continually trying to borrow money, and that this annoyed...
Tears & Steaks. Shanghai is still China's biggest and most cosmopolitan city. But it has been isolated for years. Shanghai's frantic trading is all smalltime stuff-as though New York's retail stores were going like mad with no wholesaling, manufacturing or shipping. The national government probably will regard Shanghai as its wicked Wall Street and keep a firm hand on the city...
Died. Major Putnam Bradlee ("Putty") Strong, 71, onetime "handsomest man in the U.S. Army," whose sentimental jour neys (contemporary estimate: 41,339 miles) and subsequent nuptials with mad cap Actress May Yohe, then Lady (Hope Diamond) Hope, were accompanied by an international obbligato of tongue-clacking and ended in a 1910 divorce after she accused him of pawning $300,000 worth of her jewels; in University...
Barns & Bowls. It was only natural that Felix ("Doc"') Blanchard Jr. should be a fullback terror; 240-lb. Felix ("Doc") Blanchard Sr. had been one at Tulane, at least when he got mad enough. In Marlboro County, S.C., where they lived, young Doc began to imitate his old man early. When he was two and a half, he got his aunt to hold a football (see cut) and managed to kick it a few feet. The next year he tried out his father's pipe and set fire to the barn...