Word: madness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...yours; but you, as well as others, are mad, mad as any one in a lunatic Asylum. Why? Well, of course, different people show their insanity in different ways. If you should ask me how you show yours, I might tell you that you have an abnormal leaning - towards certain mad tendencies. You crook out your elbows; you part your hair in the middle; you brush it down flat upon your temples (such foolishness as school-girls only used to be capable of); you never by any chance confess an interest in anything except tennis and Germans. Indifference, I believe...
...yourself thoroughly at home in my absence. You will find the Zion's Herald and the Evangelist on the table." (My shoes came home last night wrapped up in these papers, and I remembered putting them on the table.) Uncle Luther was still silent. "Great heavens," I thought, "how mad...
...photograph were being taken, and thought of the cruel exactions of the history professor. I flattered myself that every hair of my mustache was standing out with indignation, when I heard one young lady whisper to another, "He looks just like our cat when she's mad." This completely upset my gravity, and made it impossible to look fierce any longer...
...Great Heavens! you don't mean to say that that was all you got. Why, you will be dropped as sure as a gun. It makes me mad to hear you ninety per cent men talk. If I get sixty...