Word: madly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That night there is snow, and its soft silent falling does much to cool his feverish vacation marathon. He finds that the mad dashings, the enforced gaieties which have so far characterized his holiday activities have now a thin crust of ice tinging their edges. In a so-white, so-virginal, so-hushed world, it becomes unseemly to talk loudly and vacuously with hometown people, to rush hastily from place to place, and to find final lodgement at the noisiest, the most crowded, most frenzied party-dance. But that is what everyone he knows insists on doing. And likewise...
...compelling story. The many sided and fascinating character of Henrlette opens out and blossoms as she faces the trials of working for a due with whom she is in love and a duchesse whose complete lack of reason and understanding at times make the Praslin mansions mad-houses. Added to this is a story that you cannot set down; every scene, every conversation leads with maddening deliberation to the inevitable crisis...
Unfortunately, very little credit for this performance can go to the Dramatic Club. The few lines that call for acting, such as Miss Spencer's "mad Ophelia" scene, are read by women, while the men in the cast are uniformly poor, always excepting Mr. Sever and possibly Jervis B. McMechan '42. Moreover the man responsible for the revision of the play, as well as its direction and staging, is Jack Munro, a 28-year-old Canadian actor and author who boasts "a crimson past but no connection with Harvard." In spite of this outside assistance, or quite possibly because...
Whatever stir Dictator Mussolini thought was going to result from this latest of dictator-manufactured crises, French citizenry in Tunisia and Corsica and French officialdom in Paris responded by getting good and mad. In Tunis an angry mob, forming spontaneously, serpentined through the narrow streets shouting "Down with Italy!" and "Long Live France!" Forcing stray Italians caught in the crowd to remove their Fascist insignia, the paraders wrecked an Italian bookstore, flinging newspapers and books into the streets, raided the offices of the Italian Line, broke into the plant of the Italian newsorgan Fascista Unione. Reinforced police squads narrowly prevented...
...individuals and institutions and even more to his own family (in 1921 John D. Rockefeller Jr. held $410,674,000 in Standard Oil stock alone). Of his devotion to his "duty," his old friend Marcus Alonzo Hanna said: "Sane in every respect but one-he is money mad." The new-minted dimes and nickels he gave away were stuffed into his trouser pockets every morning by his valet, $5 a day. Bestowing them, he always admonished: "Save...