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...that, argues the apologists of Weakness, would have made him madder and more maniacal than ever. Yes, but how dangerous is a madman if you have a gun to shoot him with when he gets funny? As for relative strength, look what Great Britain did to India with a few thousand soldiers, and who has heard of the Boers in all these years, though their hate at first after defeat must have been as great even as that of a Frenchman for a German...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Horns and Claws | 3/14/1936 | See Source »

...house and drunk and a-lay across the bed and Coonhunter laid down aside me and went through my pockets and took my pocketbook with six cents and my keys. Last night it was I got to thinkin' about this and the longer I thought the madder I got because I needed my keys about unlockin' things. Here I was unable to get into my place without crawlin' in the window. I lived there and I had a right nice place. I had me a hot plate and as good a blanket as you ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Widow | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

...Growing madder by the minute, Lawyer Davis shouted: "I say it is an unworthy, an undignified and a contemptible presentation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Baltimore Battle | 10/7/1935 | See Source »

...Madder and more original than most of her contemporaries, Mme Schiaparelli is the one to whom the word "genius" is applied most often. Even to her intimate friends she remains an enigma. Her great-great-grandmother was an Egyptian. Her Italian father was dean of the University of Rome, a professor of oriental lore, an authority on Sanskrit and old coins. Her uncle, Astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli. discovered the canals on Mars. Elsa Schiaparelli was born in Rome, educated in Switzerland and England where she married a Polish gentleman and moved to New York. There she lived on 9th Street, worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Haute Couture | 8/13/1934 | See Source »

James Thurber, whom FORTUNE describes as follows: "Thurber is madder than White. His prose is more vital, has an earthy quality refreshing in The New Yorker. Born in Columbus (39 years ago) he graduated from Ohio State University. There he is remembered as a long, lean, funny-looking grind who sat around the library all day with his hair hanging in his eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The New Yorker | 8/6/1934 | See Source »

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