Word: madding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minutes earlier Sihanouk had himself made Premier again, and delivered a little speech accusing the U.S. of wishing to take over and enlarge the Cambodian army. Said a Frenchman, amused by the U.S. predicament, "When he was King, we used to say le Roi est fou [the King is mad]." Last week the ex-King announced that his next ambition is to represent Cambodia at the United Nations in New York...
...point short of genius. His transition from the Hitleresque vaudevillain stuff in the mob scene is an act of high poetic terror: he leaps, epileptic with triumph, from his balcony to the bell rope that is tolling in his reign, and down it he goes, twirling like a mad chimpanzee in his surely insane lust to see the first man bend the knee...
Like a fraternity pledge on initiation day, President Arthur M. Loew of Loew's Inc. (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) marched warily into his first annual meeting last week after barely two months in the job. He found his stockholders in no mood to spare the paddles. What made them mad was Loew's earnings, down $1,265,578 in fiscal 1955 from 1954's $6,577,311, and down again in 1956's first fiscal quarter to a mere $248,161, or 5? a share...
...head with a nightstick, made a direct hit on him with a vacuum bottle as he stepped back, rapped him on the fingers with the club when he made a last grab for the hotel's money, explained to police after he fled: "He made me mad with his brashness...
...mad scientist is Dr. Erich Varnoff. Exiled by a "foreign power," Varnoff decides to rule the world. As he puts it, "I will perfect my own race of people." Varnoff sets up a monster-making establishment in an old dilapidated mansion, the old Willows Place, which is hidden deep in an old secluded swamp. "This swamp," one of the characters later reveals, "is a monument to death...