Word: mad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East Coast. Delta Air Lines, now the fifth biggest U.S. passenger carrier, will get a crack at bigger markets, with 2,000 more miles of routes spreading from Atlanta and New Orleans to New York. Eastern Air Lines, which has had the routes to itself, is fighting mad, promises to appeal the case...
There are famous figures such as Mad Anthony Wayne who appears regularly and in several guises-most notably as a hell-for-leather horseman on a brimstone nag, riding around New York's Storm King Mountain whenever a storm approaches. There are bloodcurdling ghosts, and friendly ghosts, and even some sad little ghosts. The South, with its romantic and blood-drenched history, produces surpassingly satisfying ghosts, but there are other excellent entries, too. Samples: ¶ Charles ("Brickbat Charlie") Dorsey, a murderous debauchee, and his ripsnorting consort, a Hungarian slut named Rose Mataz ("Razzmatazz"), lived it up lecherously and lethally...
...profit, and use 12-and 13-year-old children to work as unpaid labor. Your city labor is working for shorter hours. Mr. Benson tells the farmer to work longer hours for less hourly wage. The farm situation is dangerous because the farmer and his family are damn mad...
...oasis community of Palm Springs, the relatively modest (4,750 sq. ft. of floor space) $650,000 ranch house of Los Angeles Industrialist Robert McCulloch (power mowers, chain saws) was near completion after a year's construction. Big reason for the dream house's high cost: gadget-mad Bob McCulloch's departure from mere reliance on ordinary home appliances into pioneering a sort of householder's pushbutton paradise. Items: 1) beds that spring up and away from walls for easier sheet-tucking, 2) two bars with refrigerated drawers for glassware, perpetually cold ice buckets, automatic bottle...
...Actress Channing is only intermittently victorious. She has her real moments, with her round, seemingly lidless eyes or her rumbling subway of a voice; she can pronounce a word as though bending it in two or rush feverishly about her various farm chores as though running bases in some mad game played on Mars. But her large-limbed wackiness. so wildly wrong for Gladiola Girls and Lorelei Lees as to prove wonderfully right, is not quite suited to spoofing high-powered vamps...