Word: madding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Wireless Operator Collins saw feathers and found what was in the cubby hole, he felt more than ever like God. He hunted Sheik, who arched against his leg as usual, purring in mad anticipation of a caress. He carried Sheik to the wireless room, muttering. He arranged some wires, glared at the "murderer" and loosed the lightning of righteousness. It was Omnipotence to swing the white corpse by its tail and hurl it at the sky, a falling thing in the wide heavens, a pitching clot for the sharks...
When the flag should crumple down, 17,000 would-be diamond diggers would rush in a mad scrambling race to stake out diamond claims in a new field...
Also last week, Michael Ponkraskow Jr., 11, of Richmond Mill, L. L, "made mad" by a slap from his father, left home, borrowed a pistol, held up Shopkeeper Marcus Gold, for supper money, murdered Mr. Gold...
...beauty shows, rodeos, aquariums, stockyards. It has football stadia, fisticuffing gardens, chambers of horror, mad- houses. Also zoos, museums, 5-&-10-cent stores, a diamond horseshoe, divorce courts, a Congress and other exhibits. But, according to Dr. G. Clyde Fisher, of the American Museum of Natural History, one thing the U. S. has not got for its people to go and look at is a working model of the free and boundless heavens. . . . Last week Dr. Fisher, who is an astronomer, told Manhattan illuminating engineers that the American Museum would soon start raising three millions for a projection planetarium...
...Wall Street protozoan, is made to seem more wistful than the meanest Americano would likely be. An orphan, he suffers an ugly seduction in his youth. His one love affair founders on his poverty before it is launched. His friends are a kindly, resigned fatalist, and a mad painter who drags him to hear opera from the top gallery. His sensitive nature is sickened by the War and after the misery of heroism he experiences peacetime betrayal by crass noncombatants. This wistfulness may irritate some U. S. readers, used to two-fisted, hammer-and-tongs irony. Clerks who cheat...