Word: madness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon came up, loaded the Colonel on a stretcher. Said a private as they started to the rear: "Remember, Paddy, you can't kill an Irishman-you can only make him mad." Colonel Flint smiled. Next day he died...
There's an old song that Beatrice Lillie used to sing to the sweltering British troops in the African campaign. It's an oldie, and it's entitled "Mad Dogs and Englishmen Go Out in the Midday Sun." Well, none of us are Englishmen, orgo we must be mad dogs, because these days you don't even have to go out in the midday sun. It's that hot at midnight and in Disbursing classes. How Lt. Bockham can retain that composure, voice and starched collar is the current mystery...
...pitfalls, but while his wife (Ann Harding) and his best friend (Robert Benchley) demur, the mote in his own eye grows to beam size. Janie, one night when the family is out, arranges to vibrate with Pvt. Lawrence in the privacy of her home. Thanks to Scooper, who is mad with jealousy, and to her little sister Elspeth (Clare Foley) who combines the less endearing features of a stool pigeon, a blackmailer and the Marquis de Sade, they get no privacy. By the time Janie's parents get home, along with the town police and a batch...
...moorland town of Macclesfield, Housewife Hannah Wright was out of control. Many an officially contrived British wartime makeshift had annoyed her. But wartime corsets made her writhing mad. Last week she sent a letter to Daily Express Columnist William Barkley. Wrote angry Mrs. Wright...
...down the aisle chanting in that peculiar manner reserved for train conductors, Woodsole! Woodsole!," you will know that it is time to change from train coach to cool, windswept steamer deck is certainly a refreshing one, calculated to make you quickly forget about those unloved physics problems or the mad conclusion of Harvard Square...