Word: madder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hell can editors and publishers be aroused to the danger of phony headlines?" brooded Nat Floyd, 38-year-old correspondent of the New York Times. That question burned in Texas-born Nat Floyd's soul while he was on Bataan, getting madder & madder as he read the Navy's mimeographed daily digest of the optimistic news from the U.S.-dogfights headlined as major victories, major defeats buried away in the corners...
Reminiscent of the stories of pro-Fascist officers in the Army of France is the War Department's notification to Lawrence Dennis that he is eligible for a commission. The man who believes that "nothing can be madder than to accelerate the domestic trend to Fascism by undertaking to eradicate Fascism abroad" has passed his physical examination and is waiting to become a captain...
...most of their editors and publishers began to feel that the President was less than all-knowing, all-wise and beneficent. Other Washington newsmen were conscious of his fallibility. But the White House gang who saw him oftenest usually stood up for him, until last week when they were madder than they had been since the days of the Hoover Administration. No one thing had made them sore. Their anger had built up for some time...
...fine promotion was never sent out, and last week Columnist Lyons switched syndicates from King Features to McNaught. The trouble originated with Publisher Hearst, summering in northern California. He was getting madder & madder at Lyons. Lyons had made friendly mention no less than 41 times since Jan. 1 of Orson Welles, producer of the movie Citizen Kane, allegedly based on Hearst's strange career. That was tactless at least of Columnist Lyons...
Clearness? Your style is too labored to be clear; the boys in the bunkhouse at the Helen Hiwater get madder'n hell when they have to read some of your paragraphs twice. Beansoup Ben and Sourdough Sam send you 50,000 parentheses to use in your next issue. Are you laughing at us? Sure, we are laughing, too, at old cowpokes lecturing you city slickers on how to write...