Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time in the last 20 years. Something froze Dzerzhinsky's soul in his youth- perhaps too early and too long imprisonment-and he became imbued with the prodigious soulless energy of a machine. While imprisoned in Poland and later in Siberia, he begged permission, lest inaction drive him mad, to empty daily all his fellow prisoners' latrines. Like a famished tiger, he thirsted for the revolutionary works of Marx, but (naturally) his gaolers were adamant on that point, though obliging in the matter of latrines...
...bold and probably judicious. For months the rival factions in the Chamber have played party politics while the franc fell-have displayed the acumen of drunkards gambling in a burning saloon. Not to stake all upon forcing some definite program to an issue, was to court more months of mad trifling while the franc collapsed. Moreover a precedent had been established for franc-saving-by-dictatorship only a few days before, when the Belgian Parliament buried its party differences, and all but unanimously conferred dictatorial power upon King Albert (See BELGIUM...
...went it, by Panama. For months he roamed the roaring, gold-dusted country asking the cream and scum of 40 nations, not for metal or favors, but for word of her. No woman stayed him though he succored one, a young Italienne with a snakeskin headband, quite mad with working her blind father's claim...
...above yet decidedly backing the crew rallyy scheduled for this afternoon, may appear to be shifting its ground. Such is not the case, for it sees in today's exhibition not an artificial stimulus to excite the undergraduates to support a sport or testir athletics into a mad frenzy that they may accomplish the phenomenal, but rather it sees in the rally a voicing of support and approval both necessary and encouraging to a Harvard crew in a difficult situation, a crew which besides having to face this situation must in three weeks' time develop into the most efficient combination...
Nevertheless, one mad morning last week, bears tried to break it below that figure. Thousands of shares were offered and promptly taken up at 52. A Nash post, around which practically every trader tried to crowd, was improvised on the Floor. Ever and anon some bedraggled trader would manage to squeeze from the press of bodies and jump on the seat to scream his offers. On the mob's fringe, for it was a veritable mob which left the rest of the Floor deserted, fubbers tried to make private deals at as low as 51. They wasted their petty...