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Word: madmen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sister, and faked a serious mental depression. "Doctor," his helpful "sister" pleaded, "Allen has tried to take his own life and I think he ought to be treated here for a while." Half an hour later, greatly to his surprise, he was bedded in a ward full of madmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Crazy Carlin | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...speaker of over 20 languages, uncompromising enemy of Victorian conventions, first Englishman to enter Mecca, first to explore Somaliland, discoverer of Lake Tanganyika, famed swordsman, author of 40-odd books including a 15-volume translation in English. The result is a leading portrait in that gallery of "indomitable madmen who," as Aldous Huxley says, "have made the British Empire and English literature the extraordinary things they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unvictorian Victorian | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

Equipped with a serious, timely theme, a full-blown performance by Actor Baur, for whom madmen and the like are a specialty, The Golem does not aim to be a horror picture. Nonetheless, ably directed, festooned with English subtitles, its principal message for cinemaddicts who remember its predecessor will be that old Golems are the best Golems. Good shot: Ru dolph trying to engage the Golem in talk, raging when the statue fails to answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 29, 1937 | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

...route CRIMSON SPECIAL to Montreal: Hicks; Hicks, Ecker 'scuse me but it must be the train. Three hundred madmen just Stubbs their toe and it's so noisy I can Harding think...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey, | Title: HU FLUNG FEELS HARVARD FINE; HOW FREELY HE FRISKS | 2/20/1937 | See Source »

...four years Germany has regained the status of a Great Power and many of her once plaintive claims have become unchallenged rights. She once more has an army which is feared, an air force especially feared because so many Europeans think Hitler and Goring "capable of acting like madmen," and a navy still negligible against Great Britain but able to cork the Baltic neck of the Soviet bottle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Saturday Surprise | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

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