Word: madness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Still ecstatic about his medical discharge from the Army, Igor Cassini gushed in a recent column: "Peace, it's wonderful! What a change from the muddy boots, the shivering cold, the caked blood." Better times were coming: "We're in for an era of mad spending and fun-making. . . . Mrs. William Randolph Hearst Sr. entertained at a gala dinner...
Whatever the merits of Wilson's plan, it held no hope of settling the controversy: labor will never willingly give up the 40-hour week it fought so long to write into law. Reuther, hopping mad, jumped back into print with a reply that made nobody happier, did nothing to add to Walter Reuther's stature...
This letter, by confirming Arab claims that Roosevelt had promised to let them in on any new deal for Palestine, threw pro-Zionists on Capitol Hill and elsewhere into confusion. The letter from Ibn Saud, published at the same time, made them hopping mad...
...Army Loses. No one contradicted him. The Army's occupation had been a failure from almost everybody's point of view. The union, hopping mad because it was right back where it started from, was ready to strike. The Army, which paid out cash over & above collections, said it was $1,200,000 out of pocket...
...Hickory got so mad he roared: "My name is Andrew Jackson, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with snapping turtle. I can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride a streak of lightning, slip without a scratch down the honey locust, whip my weight in wildcats, hug a bear too close for comfort and eat anybody opposed to the COMMON MAN! Come on, boys, let's get Nicholas Biddle...