Word: maddering
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...ineptness in public relations. This has given us a public-relations problem for a long time." A Waco alderman, ex-Mayor Ralph Wolf, put it more bluntly: "The trouble with the Red Cross," he said, "is that they have too many workers . . . who special ize in making people madder than hell...
...Cobalt & Madder. The society's earliest projects were on the modest side. Its first decision was to set up a series of prizes I) "for the best quantity (not less than 20 Ibs.) of cobalt produced in this country, 2) for raising and curing not less than 20 Ibs. of madder,* 3) for the best drawing by a child under 14 years of age, and 4) for the best drawing by a child between 14 and 17." But before long, the society was attacking such problems as sheep diseases, the making of rosin, the growing of potatoes. Meanwhile...
...open umbrella, followed by mobs of delighted children. Everybody calls him Napoleon, and is happy to have him around for laughs. The beauty of it is that Napoleon, in a well-juggled ending, turns out to be not so mad after all-or is he really much, much madder...
...fact that Mrs. Eisenhower is to be the Nautilus' sponsor at its christening next week aggravated the offense. Secretary Wilson, as the man in whose bailiwick the trouble had started, was madder than anyone...
...power, and the human race commit suicide by blowing up the world." By 1901, he was saying: "After us the deluge-or even before!" In February of 1918, he was 80 years old and very tired of "a new society and a new world which is more wild and madder by far than the old one . . ." One month later, he left...