Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second journey (May, 1914), he went abroad to induce Germany, England and France to agree to limitation of armaments. He called this trip "the great adventure." From Berlin he wrote President Wilson that the situation there was "extraordinary." "It is militarism run stark mad. . . . There is some day to be an awful cataclysm." As he returned home at the end of July, having made some progress with his plan, the cataclysm came...
...pomegranate in one hand and a green carnation in my buttonhole I am going to the Semitic Museum at 10 o'clock. Professor Lowes has reached the dim and yeasty 'nineties in English 26, and he will talk this morning on Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley, the two gaily mad and sadly gay giants of the fin de siecle...
Suzanne Lenglen, with a shaking hand, tilted to her lips a long amber glass. The touch of her hand frosted the glass, for she was very hot; only a mad woman would imbibe iced liquors at such a time?a mad woman, or a French woman. Onetime King Manuel of Portugal, Grand Duke Michael of Russia, ex-King George of Greece, the Rajah of Pudukkottia, watched the amber glass tilt up and up; the linesmen, the umpires and 4,000 of the smartest women and the richest men in Europe counted her rapid swallows. Nine, ten, eleven. . . The glass...
Skillful journalese hooks headlines to the following researchers, popularizes them: Antony Leeuwenhoek, "First of the Microbe Hunters"; Lazzaro Spallanzani," "Microbes Must Have Parents"; Louis Pasteur, "Microbes Are a Menace!"; Robert Koch, "The Death Fighter"; Louis Pasteur, "And the Mad Dog"; Emile Roux and Emil August Behring "Massacre the Guinea Pigs"; Elie Metchnikoff, "The Nice Phagocytes"; Theobald Smith, "Ticks and Texas Fever"; David Bruce, "Trail of the Tsetse"; Ronald Ross and Battista Grassi, "Malaria"; Walter Reed, "In the Interest of Science?and for Humanity!"; and Paul Ehrlich, "The Magic Bullet...
...these gentlemen and many another were stigmatized by the Fascist newspaper, Impero, last week: "Nothing is bad enough for them but the ignoble death of the stiletto. We hope that the blessed hands of a few holy mad men will exterminate these traitors with cold steel...