Word: maddest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...goddess is exalted with the maddest and most foolish hymns to become a symbol of national power. . . . Meanwhile, true virtues . . . are forgotten...
...passengers were credited with 55 miles per hour. Large lumberers of the cruiser type were ticketed to do 25. Tiny spiderlike shells with outboard motors swarmed everywhere boasting varied, astonishing rapidities over 30 m. p. h. Oldsters recalled how very few years ago it was when none but the maddest special speed boats ran over...
...credit nor gainsay Novelist Ford's estimate of Poet Pound. As criticism it is a foolish phrase. But it is certain that Ezra Pound is ... a poet that doth drink life As lesser men drink wine. He has been mad through the mountains of Cabaret with Peire Vidal, maddest jongleur of the old time. For the marriage at Cana in Galilee he has written a dance figure that is, so far as one can feel, no less lovely than any marriage ever was. In his swift, light, swirling pages are a host of echoes -of tall women and barbecues...
Those treaties contain a clause (TIME, Nov. 2) which makes them inoperative until Germany is within the League. Until a few days ago, the maddest of political alarmists did not venture to prophesy that Germany would not be admitted to the League now. Yet the postponement to September has been made. It can only be said that before that time further difficulties as unexpected and as potent as those just encountered may arise. The Locarno Treaties have unquestionably been put in serious jeopardy...