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Word: madness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard has the advantage, though. The team is still fighting mad after last year's hotly-argued loss to the Blue. Yale won, 14 to 13, though the varsity had the better team and scored twenty more touches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Fencers Face Yale Today In Toss-Up Meet | 3/12/1949 | See Source »

...present disturbed condition in the world, any normal question by a reporter arouses suspicion among lower officials of any government. I was stepping on somebody's toes [in Moscow]. I was making officials mad, [though] I thought I was doing them a favor. All countries have stupid officials and prosecutors who, once they have decided against you, go out to get their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Back Home | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...mad at anybody," insisted Jesse Jones, explaining his desertion to the Republicans during the November election. "I just thought we needed a change. Always takes a new set of rascals a while longer to learn the combination to the safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 7, 1949 | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

Bing's blunders are as celebrated as his successes. He made most of Michigan mad with an abusive obituary of the respected Senator James Couzens. He ran a frontpage article accusing Radio Father Charles E. Coughlin of "congenital inability to tell the truth," and Father Coughlin filed a $4,000,000 libel suit against the Free Press (the suit was dropped). Day after last November's election, the Free Press carried an editorial announcing Dewey's victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bing's Song | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...concerned, biting asses' tails, as a leisure occupation, is not much more inexplicable than a lively taste for modern art, especially if it is abstractionist art. What's more - as Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art has good reason to know - the public gets disputing mad about it. The gallery's biennial shows of current U.S. painting invariably cause a loud outcry of outrage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Kunastrokicm Point | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

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