Word: maddens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gunman Bondurant had forced a Memphis lumberman named Thomas L. Madden to drive him to Middleton, had taken Madden into the bank as a hostage, and was doing fine. He winged a defiant cashier, then threatened to kill a customer, and in the end picked up $10,000. But when he backed out for the getaway, it seemed that half the people in town were waiting. "It was just bang, bang, bang," said an awestruck witness. "It sounded like the Battle of Shiloh. Rifles, shotguns, pistols. Everybody in town had guns...
...Ambassador to Poland Arthur Bliss Lane, persistently urged a reinvestigation of Katyn. This fall, the Rules Committee appointed a special investigating committee with Democrat Raymond Madden of Indiana as chairman, got the House to authorize $20,000 for expenses...
Author O'Flaherty's hero is a Madden of Connemara-a distinction that may not mean much to a Smith of Brooklyn or a Brown of Grand Rapids but apparently means a lot to a Madden of Connemara. "There isn't a better class of fighting man from Oughterard to Letterfrack," shrills Mrs. Colgan, the old lady who introduces Recruit Madden to the rebel army just in time for him to get in a few licks in the Easter Rising. And sure enough, Madden quickly proves himself the sort of character who looks his best in very...
...Flaherty's romantic heat is well-tempered with chilly realism. Madden is fighting the English not so much for the noble cause of independence as because he hero-worships his company commander and feels "liberated" by complete surrender "to the authority of a leader...
...Colgan doesn't care two straws about the fate of Ireland when she urges Madden into the insurgent ranks; she just wants him to keep an eye on her adolescent son, who has been swept off his silly feet by patriotic ardor. And when the rebel song rings...