Word: madly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Without regard to party affiliations Their Lordships were as mad as a nest of decrepit hornets, all because the House of Commons had poked them up with a law drafted by the Labor Government to pay more "dole" money to out-of-work Britons. To the house of hereditary loafers such a crack-brained scheme seemed nearly if not quite Bolshevik...
This conception of the University as a vast hive of little brain cells has of course great value as an antidote for the football, pleasure and leisure mad undergraduate. Before many the academic muse can only gape, sigh, and pass on. For these even the shining example of France is of no avail. All that is left to those who scorn the battle of the books is the "paradise of the shirker and the drifter". An examination, of this paradise would be interesting. To the casual observer it might well be summarized by a rough sketch depicting Don Juan...
Useless to try to catch a bird by putting salt on its tail. But millions of Indians believe that the way to pacify a mad elephant is to have a camel bite...
Pilgrims fled in terror, many fell, panic threatened. "The camel! The camel!" screamed some of the quick-witted. From the rear of the procession a brave cameleer spurred his loose-lipped beast forward to give the conciliatory bite. Fearful of its ears, the mad elephant fled trumpeting to the river, was eventually rounded up by two workmanlike tame elephants...
...told about the tortures of being put in cages resembling bear pits and there through the want of anything to do, being left to go mad...