Word: madness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inscrutable Mr. Hughes, who had been ignoring the whole thing in Hollywood, suddenly got mad. In an open letter to Brewster he blared: "Since you think it is so horrible for anyone to accept my hospitality, why don't you tell about the $1,400 worth of airplane trips you requested and accepted from me? . . . Why not tell that this investigation was really born the day that TWA [in which Hughes is the principal stockholder] first flew the Atlantic . . . the day TWA first challenged the theory that only Juan Trippe's great Pan American Airways had the sacred...
...Movie-Mad. Nevertheless, in 1922, Hedda divorced DeWolf, who objected to her movie career and resented her equal earning power ($1,000 a week). For Hedda was there when the flickers were born. She knew Hollywood in 1915, when it was a village near Los Angeles. She knew Sam Goldwyn when his name was Goldfish, and played in several of his pictures in the Biograph studio on New Jersey's Palisades...
...stood there with the muleta almost directly behind him, his body between the muleta and the bull, and it is only a slight exaggeration to say that if the bull had stuck its tongue out it could have licked him. The crowd, which had booed everybody all week, went mad. (Pamplona crowds are notoriously hard to please because during fiesta week they dance the fandango and drink all night...
...Ears & a Tail. Out came the last bull. They had seen this one before. And the crowd went mad in a different way. That morning, during the encierro (a ceremony of running ahead of the bulls through the streets, which survives only in Pamplona) this bull had gored one Casimiro Heredia in the chest. When Heredia lost his head and tried to get up, the bull turned and butchered...
Before the war, Bobby Locke was South Africa's best golfer and among the least popular. Once, on a golfing trip to England, Locke got mad at being kept waiting by England's haughty Henry Cotton, retaliated by playing so deliberately that the match was nearly night-foundered. But, the story goes, when Locke himself was upbraided by a fellow South African for being an hour late for dinner with an English lord, he retorted: "I am Bobby Locke...