Word: madcaps
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...inexcitable over the rehashed chatter, begun by Mr. LaFollette in 1924, to give U. S. politics another Progressive orientation. Feeling that most of the institutions they are combating are as firmly embedded as ever, he now, as in 1924, turns toward the recourse of soft-tempered satire, rather than madcap denunciation of the Regulars...
Marlborough House. About Marlborough House there still stalk, allegedly, the shades of the great Duke of Marlborough, "who taught uncertain battles where to rage," and his Duchess, the madcap Sarah, the wisest fool that ever time has made." Sarah, as everyone knows, deliberately slighted the great architect Vanbrugh by employing Sir Christopher Wren to design the "House" for her. Said she, when it was finished: "It cost ?50,000*. . . not really so extravagant, because it is the strongest and best house that was ever built...
...wrote "To make a perfect salad there should be a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a wise man for salt, and a madcap to stir...
...Paumonok, a new boat, designed by Gielow, built by Lawlet, owned by the Seawanhaka Syndicate, to be sailed by Sherman Hoyt of Oyster Bay. Heron, a new boat, designed by Crane, built by Nevins, owned and to be sailed by C. F. Havemeyer of Cold Spring, L. I. Madcap, a new boat, designed by F. M. Hoyt, built by Nevins, owned by Harry L. Maxwell, to be held in reserve in case of an accident to one of the four contenders. The international competition is a series of races over various courses of varying distances. The scoring system gives each...
...dramatization of the very worst of Black's novels, "Madcap Violet," is being produced in London...