Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After almost a month of ineffectual grumbling, early this week the Kremlin got so mad at Finland that in the space of 24 hours the Pravda degree was reached and passed, the Izvestia stage was skipped and the white heat of the official protest had arrived...
...Courier-Journal Colonel Watterson said flatly that Theodore was "as mad as a March hare," suggested that his family ought to lock him up before he did more harm. Another time he called Roosevelt "as sweet a gentleman as ever scuttled a ship or cut a throat." When World War I began, Marse Henry wrote: "We must not act either in haste or passion." But it was his habit to end his editorials with the cry: "To hell with the Hohenzollerns and the Hapsburgs...
...grow bigger Adolf breaks off and munches a piece of the globe labeled Poland. He wanders off. He comes to the house of the March Into, who is having substitute tea with the Mad Flatterer and the Doormat...
...decayed Thanksgiving turkey. In the orchestra pit the staid Metropolitan Opera orchestra surged and noodled conventionally through Wagner's foaming music. But the cavorting it accompanied would have turned a Wagnerian's hair white in a single act. No Tannhäuser was its central protagonist, but mad King Ludwig of Bavaria (Wagner's patron), who reared and reeled in the costume of Lohengrin. Before him, like something sired by George White out of Krafft-Ebing, pranced a bleached Venus (Nini Theilade), a hoop-pantalooned Lola Montez (Ludwig's grandfather's mistress) with a belt...
Another reported Buchenwald flogging system: "Fixed on the ground were two footplates to which a man's feet were strapped. He was then bent over a pole and his head was secured between two horizontal bars. The men received up to fifty strokes. . . . Some went mad. They were then chained up and a sack was tied around their heads to stifle their shouts...