Word: madding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mad Hour. A girl called Cuddles (Sally O'Neil), some rich and roistering men, flasks full of cockeyed consomme, petting nights and sad-eyed days -one just knows that Elinor Glyn wrote the original story. But old irony played its ace and The Mad Hour turned out to be tragedy. Cuddles married a rich man, got mixed up with a crook, was sent to jail, lost her child, committed suicide...
...will say, Herr Badchis, that you turned on only enough electricity to make her talk. But instead she laughed. . . . She always laughs now. . . . You drove her mad...
...Wilson discovered that atoms shot at high speed through a gas, may be made to leave visible trails. Since then Professor Harkins has been trailing helium atoms. He has been busily exploding chunks of "thorium C" and other radioactive substances which shoot off atoms at the mad speed of 12,000 miles per second...
...cast sometimes flung their lines about with just such misplaced vigor as a hammer thrower might use in hurling a toy balloon; they reached for comedy like a first baseman trying to catch a butterfly. Josephine Hull played Mrs. Rodney with great cunning, while Dorothy Stickney, who was a mad murderess in Chicago, brought down cheers for making Claudia Kitts as raucous as a finger nail dragged across a blackboard...
...hers. Eventually, he was persuaded to write out his story again for a publisher to print. This version was not exactly like the first one; it was called Alice in Wonderland, and it contained a great many incidents which had been omitted in the other, such as the mad tea-party, the caucus race, the Cheshire Cat's technique of vanishing, and the two resplendent lyrics which began " 'Will you walk a little faster?' said a whiting to a snail . . ." and " 'Tis the voice of a lobster; I heard him declare...