Word: madly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little county of Brigshire, England; where life is langourous if slightly boring, where there is time for tea between questionings, and where the victim is smothered and the body laid comfortably in a sheriff's flower patch. In "The Westminster Mystery", the reader is caught in the mad rush of modern life. A Hollywood cinema idol is slain and his death becomes the cue for a grisly set of suicides and murder...
...Vagabond has always held the conventional beliefs about Russia that one culls from the Stygian gloom of Chekov or Tolstoi. Russian peasants for the Vagabond are a half mad lot. He sees them as a race of men who in one hand hold a knife over the head of a fair daughter, and in the other grasp a bottle of Vodka with which to wash away memory of the ugly deed. And the nobility, they carry on scandalously. Understand that this is only an impression gained of Russia which the Vagabond has created from his readings. He is a highly...
Concerning the British Grand National steeplechase, the National Equine Defence League wrote the National Hunt Committee as follows: "The length of the course and number and formation of obstacles are wholly unreasonable. . . . Overstrained and ruptured animals could not 'improve the breed.' . . . We denounce this race as a mad gamble, a gross violation of the law against cruelty to animals, a national disgrace...
...Goethe's eyes filled with tears, Beethoven "lectured him sharply on his sentimentality." Afterwards Goethe seldom mentioned Beethoven, but sometimes he had his music played. But the music scared him, he never really liked it. He would sit iri a corner and growl: "It is stupendous, absolutely mad. It makes me almost fear that the house will collapse. And supposing the whole of mankind played it at once...
London papers headlined LANG'S MAD DECISION. "Lang has been as bad as his word," said the Manchester Guardian. In the House of Commons, Dominion Secretary Thomas announced that he had received "a most painful surprise." Although U. S. payments were promised, New South Wales bonds dropped on Wall Street from 62½ to 56. Outraged Australians talked darkly of putting the whole state under martial law. Members of the Commonwealth Parliament from northern New South Wales and the Riverina district threatened, like Yancey of Alabama,* to secede...