Word: mad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heavy-lidded vamp of the silent screen, Polish-born Cinemactress Polo (Mad Love) Negri, 56, suddenly popped out of retirement in Hollywood to disclose all sorts of irons in the fire. Pola, who used to outhawk her own pressagents with whoppers about her past (e.g., she once claimed that she had been divorced from a Pope of Rome), now made big talk about her future. Items: a movie comeback this fall as a fallen woman in a German production, an autobiography in the works which "will cover my life and loves from Chaplin to Valentino-and those who came before...
...Accept." Cabal was fighting mad, but there was nothing he could do. The lieutenant was carrying out orders originating with President Magsaysay himself. Columnist Aqulno; "It seemed, had promised to meet Taruc without fail next morning, and the army was not supposed to interfere with his plans...
From such cases Jenkins draws a basic part of his philosophy: "You can always defend a man who kills a bully. You make the jury so damned mad that they want to dig up the body and kill the s.o.b. all over again...
None of Asbestos Heir Tommy Manville's first eight wives ever succeeded in smoking him out into court to fight a divorce brawl. Playboy Manville, 60, in escaping his previous marriages, barely dented his $20 million mad money. But shrewd Anita Roddy-Eden Manville, No. 9, enticed Tommy into a Manhattan court last week. Anita, 31, wanted a fatter payoff in her separation agreement: $1,250 a week instead of the piddling $1,000 a month she gets. When their honeymoon was only two days old, Anita testified, teetering Tommy lugged out photographs of all his ex-wives...
...treatment. In a lengthy comment, General Lemuel C. Shepherd, the Corps commandant, did not quarrel with the court's finding in the individual case of Colonel Schwable. but he did attack the court's amazing generalization that under Red torture all prisoners must either confess or go mad or die. In Korea, there were many cases of tortured prisoners who did none of these. Said Shepherd: "Some found the strength in religious faith; a few possessed the toughness of fiber needed to defy their captors' every demand...