Word: maddest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thurber's simpler secrets is the dismaying fact that the maddest laughter is often provoked by no laughing matter. Thus, one twin-bedded, book-reading wife asks of her mate, in the other bed: "What the hell ever happened to the old-fashioned love story?" Again, five assorted Thurber dogs group themselves on a grassy bank to watch a family of human beings pass: "There go the most intelligent of all animals." One of Thurber's masterpieces carries no caption at all. A simple drawing which out-surrealizes a whole school of artists, it shows a lone...
Among bluejackets there was talk of boycotting the city in favor of Oakland. Maddest of all were Navy wives and sweethearts, who showered the newspapers with letters beginning: "I am shocked and outraged. . . " ; "I can hardly find words to express my contempt...
...State. Of Detroit's 546,000 passenger car owners, nearly all of them war workers, 166,000 neglected to register, and OPA had a choice of extending the Dec. 1 date or risking lowered war production. Some Oklahomans refused to register for gas books. Texas was maddest...
What makes mild Mr. Anderson maddest is to compare the U.S. use of raw materials with Germany's. The U.S. copper supply this year is ten times what Germany has been winning the war with, he points out; yet the U.S. war plant is now slowing down for "lack" of copper! Germany is using one-quarter as much copper ammunition, though both nations are producing about the same quantity of shells...
They gave their pots & pans willingly to the aluminum drive, but resent the fact that the scrap has not yet found its way to smelters. They get maddest, not at the total Government, but at the palladium of democracy and inefficiency, Congress...