Word: madding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deathbed persuaded her physician to write her spirit letters of her daughter's progress, is rather ingenious. She gave the girl the combination of the safe where the letters were to be left, hoping that the reports and reflections therein would fortify her philosophy against a jazz-mad world. Milton Sills and Colleen Moore make much of the leading roles...
There was a mad rush in Berlin when the Government announced the first issue of 142,000,000 rentenmarks, which is to replace the worthless paper mark. The press, indignant, demanded that the Government take steps to prevent a similar disturbance when the next issue is given...
...Centralization" is one of those modern catch-words which drive men mad. It has indeed become more than a word, for as a fact it has spread everywhere. In journalism, however, one still looks for individualism and unhampered expression of opinion. Such fond fancies received a rude shock in England recently by the sale of the Hulton newspapers. These, numbering seven in all and published in London and Manchester, passed into the hands of Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook. The former is a brother of the late Lord Northcliffe and is said to have been mainly responsible for the latter...
...made a discriminating selection, and his sixteen best photo-plays are as representative a group as could be made by anyone. The honorable mention list, too, is a valuable inclusion, and with the list of releases for the season, combines to give a complete review of all the films mad eduring...
Months ago the mad Perosi, greatest of all living liturgical composers, retired to a Franciscan monastery, where the Brothers of the Brown Cowl have lavished care upon...