Word: madding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after all aren't these attempts to bring American college machine to Robot-perfection too mechanistic and grubby? Unless treated as a professional school, college should attempt to do little more than awaken an interest in other people's grooves. In the mad rush for marks, details, for true-false examinations, authoritative quotations and the like, no one seems to lift his eyes above the Library spire. College should be sipped and enjoyed as a liqueur and not gulped down as rot-gut gin for pure animal excitation...
...Civic Repertory Theatre). In Denmark live contented cows. No one has been unhappy since Hamlet. Or so you feel at this playful Danish version of the proposition that life is illogical. The plot traces the transformations of a mad-ap schoolteacher into a story editor and of his wife from a married spinster into a lady right out of the silk hosiery advertisements. There is a whiff of degeneracy here and there in the proceedings but it is innocuous, like mold on cream cheese. Pale Eva LeGallienne, mistress of the Civic Repertory, has entrusted the piece to Director Egon Brecher...
Long shots, daring chances, and rough scrimmages featured the game. The work of the rival goal guards suffered from a lack of practice, and more goals were tallied from long shots and mad scrambles than is usual in a college game. With five minutes of the second period gone. Everett, Dartmouth right wing, took a mad swipe at the puck, sent it three-fourths the length of the Arena, and sunk it for a score...
...gaily over the telephone, and Arthur who has been courting assiduously for months is plain stymied. "They give me the cold shoulder," is too often the story of the shipping clerk who is out of it because he lacks the ambition to become at least bi-lingual in the mad search for knowledge. The primitive day of the quoter of Shelley has passed, and John may be forgiven for not saying a word all evening only if he has said it in several tongues, and given it a psychological inference. All this is, of course, a plain challenge...
...enjoy exploring among the yellowed pages of the Newgate Calendar; if you enjoy paying your quarter to see the waxen images of Mrs. Snyder, and the Chicago barber who went mad with his razor in his hand; if you enjoy following the dotted lines in the "Daily Mirror" diagram photographs to find the "X", marketing sport where murder was committed:--in short, if you have hankerings after homicide, you will find much in this collection of twentieth century crimes to quicken up your blood...