Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles was not yet mad enough at Hitler to want to fight him abroad, but anger was rising. The big, sprawling metropolis ("seven suburbs in search of a city") seemed not really concerned about the war threat. Europe is a long way from Los Angeles...
Last week Harwa journeyed to Manhattan by plane and his publicity-wise handlers saw to it that he got into a good deal of trouble. He was first evicted from a hotel, then from a performance of the mad musicomedy Hellzapoppin, and finally, while being taken to a General Electric X-Ray Corp. office, got caught in a revolving door...
...more than 200 Episcopal and Roman Catholic bishops, not more than a dozen or so banned Bingo as a means of raising money. He heard that priests in Trenton, N. J. defied police attempting to enforce the law against gambling, were backed up by a grand jury; that "bingo-mad" women in Detroit hissed, hooted, flew at raiding police; that in Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Maryland, legislators were urged to legalize games like Bingo...
...most of the audience) incomprehensible Greck came a show, a swell show, a hit! There was none of the respectful boredom with which the audience greets far too many Classical Club productions. Instead the stiff-shirted, bespectacled audience let down their back hair and roared with laughter, applauded like mad...
Would classroom work be improved if the teacher charged his students $2.50 per visit? Or if some students, unable to pay the bills, were too embarrassed to attend class and face the teacher, much as they needed his services? I suspect that even doctors are not so money-mad as some of their spokesmen appear to believe, and that most of them would render honest service in spite of a dependable stable income. Some of the most important contributions to medical science have been and are being made by salaried men and women...