Word: mad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stories are better known or more poorly documented than that of the death of Adolf Hitler. Popular imagination the world over has been quick to seize on the macabre details of those last days in the bunker in flaming Berlin, where a mad genius cringed in the rain of Allied bombs and felt the walls of his terrible world closing in upon him. The suicide of his scheming henchman Goebbels, the defection of those who fattened on the blood he had spilled, the last-minute marriage with his blowzy mistress Eva Braun, the suicide pact they made together...
...Trinian's-are perhaps more deadly, molesworth is more refined. It's the difference between the cobra and the roach. Rather than crush a master's skull, this little poobah prefers to nibble at his sanity, and at least in the case of "Sigismund arbuthnot, the mad maths master," nigel has brilliantly succeeded. In general, he has perfected the art of creeping antisocialism, which has been practiced by boys of every land and time but seldom with such verminous virtuosity...
...Perfect Loves end in Marriage, which, as we all know, is the crashing finish of a mad race in which the winners and losers are never announced...
...pass off this speech as poetic imagery, but later reference shows that Lady Macduff was literally comparing the habits of birds known to her against her husband's action. The very use of the word flight for Macduff's visit to England brings to mind the mad panic he must have been in as it is well known that chickens do not fly particularly well...
...Licks. In London, Sidney Adams was fined ?3 ($8.40) after Mrs. Mary Jane Andrews testified that he had sworn to drive his neighbors mad, kept them up with noisy music night after night, once played a record of Shake, Rattle and Roll for 2½ hours...