Word: madman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only taking two rows at a time. Harold Holmes of Rio, Ill, working as though there were no hurry at all, took three rows at once, seldom losing an ear. Tague of Iowa had his hat and shirt off and tore at the cornstalks like a madman fighting a phantom army. Near Holmes was his neighbor and friend, Walter Olson, another Swedish-American. Alone in their fields at home they had often tried to decide which could husk fastest. They had 80 minutes now to husk in and they worked carefully, getting clean ears. When a second cannon-shot ended...
...Grandson, George V, was but 63 last week. His death, thought Britons, would be a sad commentary on the wages of virtue and an upright life. Those Royal libertines, George I, George II and George IV, all died at the age of 67. That Royal part-time madman, George III (reigned 1760-1820; mad 1788-89 and 1811-20) lived to the prodigious age of 81-a year longer than Victoria herself. Surely the great Queen would have approved the language in which last week, the Victorian physicians of George V bulletined the approach to crisis thus: There...
...iridescent landscapes of Vincent van Gogh, madman. When he had no brushes he squirted paint from his color tubes. Insanely he attacked Gauguin with a razor, then lopped off one of his own ears, sent it in an envelope to a bordello. He died by his own hand...
...again at Deauville Casino calling "banco suivi suivi." During an evening in which he lost $500,000, Madame Citroen kept chiding him. He kept retorting. They became a nuisance, were asked to keep quiet. Said Madame: "Messieurs, surely I have the right to protect my home against a madman...
Dominating group, divided against itself, is the Laurentano family, old and young: Don Cosmo, madman or philosopher, is a kindly recluse on the family estate and with him lives Mauro Mortora, an old fanatic Garibaldino. Disgusted with these revolutionists of 1860 another Laurentano, Prince Ippolito, had banished himself for life to a neighboring estate, and manned it with a guard dressed in conspicuously gaudy Bourbon uniform, the joke of the countryside. But his son, Lando, lived luxuriously in Rome, and published, out of boredom, a socialist paper which sympathized from safe distance with laborers in Sicily. An enthusiastic delegation...