Word: mad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Failures in the economic program brought heavy criticism on Menderes' head, and he did not stand up well under it. He hated to be reminded that the Turkish lira was daily losing value in the free market. He got mad with newspapers for publishing pictures showing people queuing for coffee. He could not stand jokes about himself. He consulted his own Democratic Party less and less, surrounded himself more and more with yes men. But he was still enough of a machine politician to win elections and keep a well-drilled majority in the Grand National Assembly...
...eavesdropper and Peeping Tom, a gossip and preferably a liar ... At the end of the [Chicago] convention he is finished, through, his career terminated and any attempt at blackmail will be strenuously resisted ... He is the patsy and I want him never to forget it. I'm getting mad at him already . . ." Last week Steinbeck picked his "queen's animal." Tom Deutschle, 38, ex-Chicago Sun newshawk and now a Loop pressagent, agreed to take the masochistic assignment...
Holloway get in some lively dancing, and Comedienne Alice Ghostley throws out some wonderfully mad looks...
...home in Cuba, Author Ernest Hemingway was mad enough to fight a duel over an affair of honor. A shabby tale, widely spread by prattling European magazines, was depicting Papa as the very worst kind of literary thief. Nobelman Hemingway, went the yarn, had promised a poor Cuban fisherman a new boat in exchange for the old man's own true sea stories, from which Papa then drew his famed novelette, The Old Man and the Sea. With callous ingratitude, he had never even thanked his pitiful source of such profitable material. When the ugly canard, headed "Old Miguel...
...Pierrot sits alone in the deserted marketplace. The folded tents of the merchants stand tall and sad as cypresses. The lady and her lover appear, and dance together a sensuous adagio. Sombert is lovely in this lyric piece, and Youskevitch is starkly splendid in his solo dance. The clown, mad with jealousy, climbs to the wire. He will prove, though he dies, that he is a man, and die he does. He lies broken in his lady's scarlet mantle, like a white bird in a pool of blood...