Word: maddering
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...Nicolson, no poet himself, suggests that the main reason why poets are considered madder than other people is that they like to display their eccentricities: "All writers, and especially all poets, feel it dull to be thought completely normal...
Austrian Conservatives were madder than Pennsylvania Republicans. Hunters complained that, under the new measure, there would soon be no wildlife left in Carinthia. That, in turn, would badly affect Austria's future tourist business. The Communists, on the other hand, thought nationalization of hunting was a fine idea...
...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...