Word: madding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tormentor was, instead, a self-seeking woman of questionable reputation, who insinuated in saccharine tones that Adrienne had of course murdered her father. Haunted by this new horror, dazed with the misery of her unrequited love, Adrienne rushed from the house, muttering confused reminiscences of a mind gone mad...
...Father. This is August Strindberg's furious fancy about a man who married an incredibly mean wife. Eager to hold absolute control of her daughter, she drove her husband mad, then poisoned him. As ineptly performed by Robert Whittier, who puffed and bellowed like a sick seal, the play is lightened of its hatred, its horror, and, indeed, of any effect...
This threat of the consequences of a machine-mad age is most engaging. But more of a piece with the author's widely read A Passage to India is the title story. An elderly authoress returns to the Swiss village that she has made famous through one of her stories, finds that the lanky porter-guide whose impulsive love she had rebuffed years before has turned into a paunchy obsequious concierge. To her horror she realizes that she has loved the man all these years, and that it is her fault he and his village have become so disgustingly...
DOOMSDAY, THE HEART OF A FOLLIES GIRL, THE MAD HOUR, BURNING DAYLIGHT, THE PLAY GIRL, and not a few others...
Sadness, like fame, is fleeting. When the trans-Atlantic heroes reached Manhattan a city went mad with welcome. . . . Once again the wires hummed with consequences...