Word: madly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long did the young lawyer press his case for simple profit. After banging his head for a few years against a stone wall of Congressional indifference, Hiram Mann got mad. He began going out on Manhattan street corners to harangue passersby about the Government's injustice. He published pamphlets, pestered editors and public officials with letters, telegrams, petitions. Finally he began to advertise. At first he took imposing space, but as his funds ran low he was reduced to two or three lines in Public Notices...
...front cover) The sun went up at Geneva last week on the climax of a great career. A scant 20 years ago Samuel Hoare was merely the name of a British secret operative in Imperial Russia whose almost immediate knowledge of the assassination of Gregory ("Mad Monk") Rasputin led to complications. These were unsnarled only when the British Ambassador personally assured excited Tsar Nicholas and his hysterical Tsarina that pro-German Rasputin had not been murdered as an act of War expediency by British Agent Hoare...
...sound more like Barrymore. Later friends reported that he bought her a diamond ring, shopped with her for a bedroom set. Last week Actor Barrymore was still being sued for divorce when he stamped out of the Jacobs' Manhattan apartment, went into hiding. Said apartment clerks: "He was awful mad." Said Protegee Barrie's lawyer: "Mr. & Mrs. Jacobs feel a deep sympathy for Mr. Barrymore. . . . The glamorous episode is ended...
...nobody is to blame for the Ualual incident no cause exists for war, ridiculed what he called the Fascist concept of a "Supernatural Mission for Eternal Rome" and scathingly declared: "In France we have a proverb, 'When a man wants to drown his dog he first says it is mad.' Italy, having resolved to conquer Ethiopia, begins by calling Ethiopia mad...
...other cancer specialists who have found lead treatments ineffective for cancer, Dr. Arnold Erwin Osterberg & associates of Rochester, Minn. insisted that they cured seven cases of hopeless cancer by giving the patients enough lead phosphate to poison them. Before the patients lost control of their wrists or went mad, Dr. Osterberg gave them intravenous injections of calcium salts. This procedure overcame the effects of lead poisoning, expelled the lead from the patients' systems. By that time the cancers had begun to disappear, eventually vanished. The chemistry back of Dr. Osterberg's medication is that lead phosphate seems...