Word: mad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outline of tonight's sermon, the other a Bible. The outline Billy never mentions but fleetingly consults; though each new sermon is rehearsed before a mirror, Graham's delivery is always convincingly ad lib. The Bible Billy mentions constantly: "The Bible says . . . Now don't get mad at me. Billy Graham didn't say it. The Bible says it." (The word "Bible" rolls up from Billy's diaphragm and out over the audience like a thunderclap...
...Mad About Cha (Billy Williams Quartet; Mercury). Over a persistently throbbing chant, frantic Billy begins his revelations quite normally, but works up to what sounds like a pathological climax...
...potatoes in his face. He even enjoyed it when the Crown Prince emptied a jug of water over him and his elder brother Wilhelm as they lay in bed at night. Lulu objected, however, when his governess made him eat soap as a minor punishment, and he got fighting mad when tangled in royalism's red tape. Once, when he was about seven, he slipped free of it for a moment, when no one was looking, and actually crossed a street all by himself...
After a Sunday in New York, Eisenhower headed into New England. Truman's assault had got him fighting mad. At Providence he said: "The opposition, having no program of its own, finding no way to defend its despicable record, has had no recourse except to launch attacks that are as false as they are terrible in their nature. They have charged me only lately-when they overstepped themselves-with being anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic ... I leave the answers to those two to my good friends, Cardinal Spellman, Rabbi Silver and Bernard Baruch (see above) . . . When I contemplate this...
...prepared to discuss. He even talks at breakfast." Almost any day he may be seen in the park opposite his house churning along at a rapid pace, his lips moving as he tries out a new bit of dialogue. But England, and especially Oxford, is used to mad people...