Word: madly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their students by staging a classical drama, usually something translated from Plautus or Aristophanes. It would indeed startle the public if leading newspapers gave these events more than cursory notice. Were a newspaper to publish long passages from such a play, readers would suspect the editor had gone mad. In England the public views the classics differently...
...Nacional Bank stood at 82% last week. Canny bankers discounted the President's amazing order as the latest greatest Irigoyen eccentricity. Argentine bonds and currency took a rapid dip on the Buenos Aires exchange, quickly recovered. In Argentina it is of course thoroughly unsafe to ask: "Is the President mad...
Meteor. The eyeballs of Alfred Lunt appear to contract with mad fixity of vision as he seethes through the part of Raphael Lord, adventurer and egoist extraordinary. Having hobnobbed with Central American banditti and other peculiar and remote persons, Lord appears at a New England college, drawn by the writings of one of its dead professors, but leaves almost immediately, enraged with the pedantic stagnation of the place and bearing away with him the vivid daughter (Lynn Fontanne) of the great teacher. Having learned of the weak heart of her other suitor, a mighty footballer, Raphael has spurred the athlete...
Author Tomlinson's narrative of the fighting in France is bitter. On Armistice Day, while London is going mad outside the windows, he goes up to young Bolt's office, sits down alone, smokes a pipe, thinks of Charley Bolt who has been killed. The book ends with Tomlinson and Maynard revisiting the weedgrown battlefields of France, trying to avoid souvenir-collecting tourists, trying to see some hope for the future...