Word: madness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cold, logical and precise fashion. He had a difficult task: to be New Dealish enough to hold the vote of all those who do not want a reactionary administration but are weary of New Deal mismanagements; yet to attack powerfully enough to please those who are just plain mad at Franklin Roosevelt...
...Springfield, Mass. barber named Frank White ("God, he smelled nice!"), 2) Nicky Arnstein, 3) Billy Rose, Fanny is now a Hollywood homebody, recently affected by inner-ear trouble which bothers her equilibrium. Her principal hobby is painting-her home swarms with relatives, in-laws, friends, all painting away like mad. Of her own works, Fanny complains: "They always come out primitive...
...whirled in across the dunes of Cape Hatteras at 4:30 one morning, piling a tremendous surf upon the coast and filling the dawn with wind and rain. After that, hour after hour, radio stations from Delaware to Maine cried the alarm, like pygmies running ahead of a mad elephant...
Robinson's first published cartoon was a drawing of a professor gravely examining birds' footprints in the sand, while a fascinated bird followed the strange human track. He produced a mad catalogue of patched-together devices constructed on such engineering principles as this: "The strength of a piece of string, as of a chain, lies in its weakest part, and surely it is wisdom to cut this out and tie in a stronger piece." In 1934 London's Ideal Homes Exhibition included one solemn Robinson exhibit which proved a sensation: a carefully constructed, full-size Robinson house...
Army Version. Ralph C. Smith, 50, handsome and soft-voiced, commanded the 27th (New York National Guard) Army Division, until Howlin' Mad relieved him on the ninth day of the 25-day battle of Saipan. Ralph Smith was relieved, according to the Army version, because of a difference over tactics:.. Marines tear into battle, trying to win it quickly; soldiers proceed cautiously, to save lives...