Word: madding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...look at?" Twinkling his delight, Judge Smith cited the rule by which he could -and did -put off civil rights hearings for a precious while. Recalls Smith, puffing on his old curved pipe: "I felt like a well-fed missionary at a cannibals' convention. They were really mad at me. I don't blame them a bit. I would have been mad had I been in their shoes...
...wonder is that a man as patently mad as Rolfe should have been sane enough to write Crabbe's story. He saw himself, not as others saw him, but, worse, as he saw others. Yet a strong echo of religious faith and a capacity for lacerating laughter relieve the baleful monomania of his vision...
...mother was forced to attend a public meeting at which her husband was denounced. A classmate denounced his own brother, and the brother was executed. A 14-year-old girl denounced her father, and the father killed himself. A professor was denounced, went mad, and ended up "living in a pig sty." Lo himself was subjected to weeks of public criticism for reading pre-Communist novels rather than progressive ones. Then came the directive ordering all politically suspect students and intellectuals sent to the country to reform through manual labor...
...with advance sales already past $1,000,000. The story: something about a dreamy London chick (Verdon), working in a turn-of-the-century waxworks, who gets tied up with a U.S. vaudeville strong man. In Washington, the Daily News's Critic Tom Donnelly called Redhead "a mad blend of Agatha Christie and Mack Sennett...
...Ophelia, Barbara Jefford goes mad quite prettily, in the most fetching rags you ever saw. One wonders why Laertes insists on ranting and shouting and making such a fuss, just as if something serious had happened to her. (It can be argued, however, that this incongruity exists to some extent in the text...