Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these two charmingly mad Russians, therefore, there must be combined with the resourcefulness of living on no income, the fortitude to leave untouched the largest account in the Bank of France...
Rudolf Forster, an Austrian, makes his accent sound just like Miss Abba's, and he is just as splendid in his mad Russian gusto, although he shows the restraint befitting a prince consort. Equal praise is due the rest of the cast, as well as Robert Sherwood, who did the translation from the French of Jacques Deval...
...Germany. Japanese took the conduct of General Telfer-Smollett as proving this up to the hilt, claimed to have found in the captured Alamo quantities of "fresh food which could only have been smuggled in from the British." Vice Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa this week was so boiling mad on his flagship at Shanghai that when a British soldier was reported to have touched a machine gun on a Japanese river launch, the Admiral reported to his Emperor: "The Japanese Navy has been insulted...
...printed 500 characters a minute instead of the 300 characters of earlier machines. To the despair and confusion of brokers and speculators, however, tickers still run far behind the market whenever trading waxes fast & furious. Last week, for example, the ticker was several minutes late on four days. One mad day fortnight ago it fell 22 minutes behind, leaving traders groping in a mist of uncertainty. Last week the Stock Exchange fathered a new scheme to help keep traders up-to-the-minute on trading...
...Mona, impresses her by flattening a tough guy (Allen Jenkins), wins another bout at a truck drivers' picnic, goes to work as a mechanic, conducts a merry courtship while Grandma Wicks and the nation's police beat the bushes for him. Set-tos with such surrealities as mad Poet Killigrew Shawe (Hugh Herbert) and the truckmen give Gerald's education the final polish. He goes home, gives tyrannical Grandma Wicks a piece of his mind, decides that Mona knows best...