Word: madmanned
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...superbly filthy" Prince of Wales, later George IV, who was known to have burst into tears when Beau Brummell criticized his clothing, and whose greatest achievement was his construction of the pleasure resort at Brighton (TIME, Aug. 19). Since George III was locked up as a madman, the prestige of royalty had never been so low. When machinery was introduced, workers rioted, smashing frames and power looms that put them out of work. Byron's first speech was a violent denunciation of early manufacturers who demanded the death penalty for frame-smashers, won him a popularity that the success...
Franklin Roosevelt countered by organizing the Jeffersonian Party. Republicans nominated Honest Walt Trowbridge who spoke well but promised little. But "Buzz" Windrip raved like a madman, assisted in his ravings by his creepy publicity agent and fixer, Lee Sarason. His followers got publicity by making speeches in strange places, such as copper mines, fishing fleets, sporting houses. His supporters were organized as the Forgotten Men, sang a goofy campaign song ("Buzz and buzz"), beat up Reds, Jeffersonians, innocent bystanders, lumping them together as the Antibuzz. His program, based on sharing the wealth, was as emphatic as it was meaningless...
...LaGuardia, the only result was that the Mayor said he "would abide by the State Department's decision" if it should rule on "Mr. K." To Germans it was occult that New York Representative Samuel Dickstein should have risen in Congress latt week to call Realmleader Hitler a madman, a mur derer and the protagonist of an insane theory of government. They saw the in visible hand of Jewry in a proposal by a New York City alderman to forbid public showing of the swastika. To Germans, however, it was thrilling to read of the prompt, virile reaction...
...black night, Burnett A. Ward, 40, railroadman, his wife and son were waked by a hammering at the door. Ward leaned out a window and saw a naked man. "What do you want?" Ward shouted. "I want food. I want a drink. I want cigarets," the madman shouted. "You ought to be ashamed of yourself," said Ward, "knocking at people's houses with no clothes on. Go and put on your clothes." "They're in the woods," the man screamed...
...state troopers at Hawthorne, 15 miles away, called the state troopers who sent a trooper. Ward got out his shotgun, loaded it, returned to the window. The naked man was still chopping at the door. Ward fired once over his head, the second time into the madman's body. On the way to the hospital, the man, still violent, shouted "Fitzgerald." Weaker he whispered "Fitzgerald" once more before he died. He was Morris Fitzgerald, 36, sometime convict and escaped inmate of an insane asylum, suffering with dementia praecox...