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Word: madness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spectator asked about the plot, an RKO pressagent replied: "It's terrific. This boy wakes up, see, and he's got green hair. Then everyone who sees him knows there ought to be more, tolerance." But how could a movie possibly be made on that faintly mad kind of a plot? "Well," said the underling, "maybe nobody else could make one out of it. But Dore Schary will pull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Boy with Fair Hair | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...various dreamlike bits of flowing, beautifully planned motion (notably Bongo's love-dream and the climax of his fight); the marvelously oily thrusting and gropings of the magical plant as it grows & grows through the night; Donald's transcendent Moscow-Arty performance as a medieval duck driven mad by malnutrition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 20, 1947 | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

Shouts of "Wellesley or bust" will again resound along the Worcester Turnpike Sunday when the Harvard Outing Club's cyclists renew their annual ten-and-one-half-mile mad dash toward Wellesley College and a welcoming committee of girls...

Author: By Roger H. Wilson, | Title: Bikes Go West For Wellesley Prizes Sunday | 10/16/1947 | See Source »

...time when we are . . . straining plenty of nerves, including financial ones, to keep Great Britain from going bankrupt." What had caused the News to sound its A was the price of cocoa. Some U.S. chocolate manufacturers and traders on New York's cocoa exchanges were just as mad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMODITIES: Storm in a Cocoa Cup | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

Shirer's comment on this is ". . . mad ... a magnificent resume of all that has gone through [Hitler's] diseased mind." Actually, it is a clear statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Locker-Room Visit | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

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