Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most thrill mad auditor can hardly be dissatisfied with the amazing succession of mystery, murder, ghosts, darkness, weird noises off stage and weird doings on stage. The most skillful amateur detective will find enough mental exercise in the attempt to fathom the mystery. The most exacting audience can find little to criticise in the work of the St. James players. We were frankly prejudiced against Bernard Nedell when we found him cast for the role which belonged so logically to Houston Richards, but his performance was good enough to stifle our prejudice almost completely. It is one of his best...
...fingers of Matisse's Jenne Fille au Piano strike from the keyboard notes that drip with colored stridence, red like the shuddering walls, waxen yellow and scarlet like the overripe fruits on the table. Duffy's Trouville clutches the beach insecurely, as if at any moment it might balloon, mad with gaiety, into the seawind, and shatter its striped pavilions on the salvoing clouds. Bonnard's Le Palmier is a jungle as gemmed and blazing as the subconscious mind of a hashish eater...
Accordingly, a lively platinum boom has set in at Johannesburg, South Africa, which in spirit and extent threatens to rival the Transvaal gold boom of the 90's. The Afrikanders have gone platinum mad. Scores of new platinum companies have been organized, some merely on the basis of leasing land in the "platinum district," their shares have been listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and have shot up to 10 or 15 times their original price in a few weeks...
...last letter I told you about an eccentric group of Satellites here at Dravrah whose sufficient reason for embracing every new doctrine that comes along is simply "Why not?" Since that disappointing experience I have been in the midst of a mad whirl that has distracted me without giving any clue to the riddle I am trying to solve. My observation convinces me that in spite of all their pother and noisy activity, few of these young men really know what they are about. Their universal rule seems to be: "Do something. Get busy Fill the hour. Make every minute...
...tried by official conference this month in Washington. For the defense of tetraethyl lead, there will be agents of the company (a joint subsidiary of the General Motors Corporation and the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey) at whose plant at Bayway, N.J., workers manufacturing tetraethyl lead went mad with lead poisoning last fall and died in straight jackets (TIME, Nov. 10). For the prosecution there will be scientists who maintain that a U. S. Bureau of Mines report, issued at Pittsburgh in November and accepted by health authorities as a clean bill of health for leaded gasoline, was inconclusive...