Word: madcaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Falstaff, who shook and belched and toddled and fought and ran and swore his way through that bawdiest of parts King Henry, in the person of Roger W. Drury '36, was a stately and dignified monarch, bent on the suppression of rebellion, and on the reformation of his madcap son, Harry...
...LIFE AND HARD TIMES-James Thurber-Harper ($1.75). Very fugitive but allegedly autobiographical pieces, many reprinted from the New Yorker, by Madcap Thurber...
...Often enough the entertainer would if he could, but too often the magic virtue has gone out of him. Wanton Mally makes pleasant enough reading, but. . . . M. de Grammont, banished from the French Court, whiles away exile in Charles II's London, soon finds a partner for his madcap follies in Jinny Wilmot, an attractively odd-looking Bright Young Person of the time. One night they go too far by roughing up a Bishop, who is shot in the scuffle. They flee to the country for their lives. Jinny leads them to the house of one Colpoys, an erstwhile...
...comedy would be far from conveying a definition, as to call "Green Pasture" a play. It is not puny, like many plays of its type. It combines all the sentiment and carefully unwinding plots of "The Cat and the Fiddle," but it is not fastidious nor in it a madcap like "The Laugh Parade...
...better times are to return permanently, and employees are to be assured of their jobs, rational planning of the type recommended by Dean Donham should be adopted. The madcap antidotes to end depression tried in the past three years, the buying campaigns and bonus crusades, are symptoms of the irrational attitude toward the crash. Neither witchcraft nor behavioristic psychology cured economic ills. Since this depression is largely the result of factors which could have been brought altogether under control, the suggestion that a national planning board could restore prosperity is attractively rational...