Word: madding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years of age, is the eldest son of the late King Peter and renounced his rights to the throne in 1909. His extraordinary behavior, manifested in a supreme disregard for social etiquette, won for him the sobriquet of "the hotspur of Europe," and the conviction that he was mad. On one occasion, it is related, he was bounced out of a Belgrade music hall for flinging champagne bottles at the orchestra leader. On two occasions he was banished from the country, but each time he returned and was allowed to remain. It is now charged that he has been financing...
...Warehouse Receipt Act, the Uniform Bills of Lading Act, and the Uniform Negotiable Instruments Act. After stating that the Uniform Stock Transfer Act was "perhaps still excusable," Mr. Hemphill added: "But then came the Uniform Partnership, Acknowledgments, Aeronautics, Desertion and Non-Support Acts -and then a real fever, a mad desire to make everything uniform.* There followed a wholesale production of nonsense, and the plant is still in 100% operation. . . . Mr. Madison's ideas of the rights of the States are still worth fighting for; it is not yet futile to contend against Federal larceny by constitutional amendment...
...September, 1920, this mad-hatter financing was brought to an end by a law which fixed the fiduciary note circulation at 41,000,000,000 francs. Prices, taking the index figure of 100 for 1914, were 506 in 1920; by the middle of 1922, they were 332, but by the end of last year they had reached the apex figure...
PROCESSIONAL?The Theatre Guild gone a little mad in a rude and irritating experiment in American expressionism. West Virginia coaltown life...
...Kind of a Story that Mad Nature Stages Once in a Millenium to Mock the Minds of Men Who Write...