Word: madder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other folks got madder. Detroit newspapers, which covered Rose City's uproar for all it was worth, discovered that Scott had been arrested in 1931 for drunken driving in Flint, in fact was converted to religion a short three years ago after a nondescript career as a salesman, industrial worker and beer-truck driver...
...pressure a kindly prof into letting them make a flophouse of his living room; but a big-shot trustee gets mad at the idea. Then they soft-soap a racketeer into turning a building he has leased into a dormitory instead of a dive. But the trustee only gets madder. It takes an act more of plotboiling to get the boys safely enrolled...
Colossal Fraud. He had just received from the U.S. James Thrall Soby's definitive book The Early Chirico (Dodd, Mead; $3), and denounced as "forgeries" two reproductions in it, one of them The Double Dream of Spring (see cut). The Paris exhibition made him even madder. Said he last week, in a letter to Rome's Giornale d'Italia: "It is a colossal fraud which could only be perpetrated in the French capital, due to the absolute decadence into which the so-called art circles have fallen...
...from the inviting powers. Byrnes called this "a gratuitous insult" to China, but finally agreed to accept a draft of the invitation form previously proposed by the Russians themselves. Molotov then said that he could not now accept even his own draft. Byrnes began to get mad. He got madder when Molotov explained that he would hold up any invitation until the Big Four agreed to rules of procedure binding the 21-nation Conference...
That made the staff even madder; they scribbled out a protest direct to General Douglas MacArthur. Last week MacArthur's inspector general, Colonel E. J. Dwan, answered them. Said he: "There is abundance of evidence that reflects adversely on the 'discretion and integrity' of [Pettus and Rubin]. It is evidenced that each has held membership in the . . . Communist Party and has at times flavored his public writings with Communistic thought...