Word: madding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suppose I went mad when I saw how he would be tortured before he could die . . . long hours in the scorching sun . . . the insects . . . jackals eating his head. . . I grabbed a stick, and made for the grave. But in a moment ten or fifteen tribesmen had me down. [It was lucky I did not suffer the same fate as the French officer, who died two days later...
...flavor. Poetry being essentially a personal thing, none may credit nor gainsay Novelist Ford's estimate of Poet Pound. As criticism it is a foolish phrase. But it is certain that Ezra Pound is ... a poet that doth drink life As lesser men drink wine. He has been mad through the mountains of Cabaret with Peire Vidal, maddest jongleur of the old time. For the marriage at Cana in Galilee he has written a dance figure that is, so far as one can feel, no less lovely than any marriage ever was. In his swift, light, swirling pages...
...then the Tutor got mad, and got up, and got some things to throw. And James James said, "Let me explain myself!" and the Tutor, without thinking, said that he didn't believe that J. J. could be explained, and the last that was seen of the pair, they were removing breakables from the vicinity, and singing, "Just Before the Battle, Mother." Further adventures of J. J. M. M. W. G. D. may be followed in "I Confess," or try your own broker...
...Bored, because, although the ceremonials of each match average ten minutes, the average, wrestling time is about 80 seconds; 3) Astonished at the mad leaps and dartings of the gyoji (umpire) who controls the bout by the movements of his gumbai...
...same way as the proper serums protect humans against typhoid fever or smallpox. This was one of the means used to fight the recent rabies situation in Louisville, Ky. (TIME, Dec. 27). But useful as is the serum, the literature has been causing a mild hysteria about "mad dogs" across the country...