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Word: madly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shouting supporters. Last week in the House New York's fire-eating little Representative Loring Black voiced the extreme Democratic view when he declared: "The outstanding accomplishment of this Administration was a successful assault on Webster's dictionary. ... As Lincoln split rails, Hoover split hairs. . . . He would make mad faces at Congress and then send [Secretary] Walter Newton over to say he didn't mean it. ... He compromised everything, the country, Congress, his party and himself. For a while the people thought the seat of Government was at St. Elizabeth's Hospital.* As the Harding Administration gave America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hoover Halfway | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

...Mohammedan world (209,020,000 souls) abruptly changed places last week with the Jewish world (15,630,000) in being hornet-mad at the British Government's "perfidious Palestine policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Perfidious Albion | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

...majority of citizens of this neighborhood who am hopping mad over our Sec. State's apology to that --* Mussolini; and am convinced that what this country needs more than a good 5? cigar is a Sec. of State and a Sec. of Navy of equivalent value. Please answer following questions for the benefit of a dozen or so of your readers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 23, 1931 | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

...sitting-room where she has languished for years under her father's tyrannous love. It is here that Browning begins his deliberate and life-giving lovemaking, here that Father Barrett breaks each of his children one by one, here that Elizabeth becomes aware of her parent's mad, incestuous devotion to her. From this room she leaves 50 Wimpole Street forever, goes off to Browning and Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 23, 1931 | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

Perforce, the opposition were balked, but they were still so boiling mad that, later, during a discussion of financial matters, party passions fizzed up into the dagger scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Slip of the Tongue | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

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