Word: madding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Garden of Eden. High were the hopes that carried first nighters to this imported mockery. The play had been a mad success in Germany; had been adapted for the local trade by facile A very Hopwood;* was reputedly risque (the cynic likes a bawdy joke as well as do the home folks); and had been proposed for various famed actresses (Jeanne Eagels, et al). Miram Hopkins† finally got the part and did well enough with it; probably better than the part deserved For the play was pale. To be sure Miss Hopkins was called upon to disrobe almost constantly...
...Rear Admiral, in his mad will-o wisp game with this long-dead Smith, resorted to various attempts to find the latter's book. After advertising without result in the query columns of the Boston Evening Transcript, he learned that the Library of Congress had no record of it, nor had the British Museum or any of the public libraries of the United States...
...outboxing Dempsey . . .Jack trying to get Tunney where he can hit him . . . following . . . motions Gene to come in and fight . . . Dempsey comes in like a wild man. . . . Dempsey is DOWN from a hard left to the jaw. He is UP ... Dempsey's eyes are getting worse. . . . TUNNEY LOOKS MAD . . . drives hard on Dempsey's eye, and it is a very, very bad eye. Dempsey is very, very tired . . . Dempsey is almost down. . . . FIGHT IS OVER...
Among the episodes which are reproduced with loving care and no more dramatic consequence than is to be found in the Papers themselves, are: the affair at the Inn, where the mad scamp, Alfred Jingle, takes the Pickwickians for £120 as balm for releasing his hold upon the elderly spinster of their party; the hunting expedition to which the jelly-bellied Pickwick sallies forth in a wheelbarrow; the court scene in Guildhall where Sergeant Buzfuz (bellowing in the person of Bruce Winston) wins the Widow Bardell's suit for breach of promise against the harassed but philosophical hero...
...wave? No wall of water had been visible on the surface. Many hours later a northward moving hurricane did bang that part of the Atlantic into a colossal lather, but what manner of hurricane forerunner would travel invisibly beneath the surface? A convulsive bottom current? A ponderous flotilla of mad leviathans? A freak pelagic tide-rip seething in the depths as masses of the Atlantic changed position...