Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Does the American journalist want America to win in a mad armaments race ? Fanning to a flame the unholy passions of millions in America against the peoples of two or three other large blocks of earth is one way to bring this about. . . . Does the American journalist want peace...
This is fine. Anybody could have said it once; it takes a poet to repeat (cf. Poe's Ulalume, Swinburne's A Match, and many others). I knew your mad prose pace would get you; that somebody would rebel. Congratulations on a more leisurely tempo! The "Curt" of "Curt, Clear, Complete" has been dealt a mortal blow. Enter now the style rococo and redundant...
Regardless of Dr. Hooton's scientific approach, the public will find the implications clear: that criminals and prisoners are a debased lot; they were born that way; there is little hope for them. Advocates of the Mad-Dog school of penology finally have contemporary textbook backing...
...raised annual net sales from $319,000,000 to $537,000,000 in eleven years, General Wood is not likely to confine his generalship to board meetings. To succeed him the directors picked a man who can get along with the General (who chews up cigarets when he is mad). New President Thomas Joseph Carney is a company man, in 37 years has served under every Sears president. Born in 1886, same year as the company, he went to work at 16 as a shipping clerk. Later he managed the Philadelphia store, rose to be vice president in charge...
From their pet playwright the glittering audience got only Grade B Coward. One superb, side-splitting burlesque of an English charity pageant is probably the funniest sketch that Coward has ever written. Two of the songs, Mad About the Boy and The Stately Homes of England...