Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great leisure and extremely strong nerves," who, despite their screaming anti-Japanese" banners everywhere, treated her with unfailing courtesy. Her concluding thought was that the Chinese "seem to be likely to inherit the earth and go on forever, while the Japanese, Italians and other Latin peoples go neurotic and mad, followed by the English...
...sympathy strike in Lansing had gone on all day with the United Auto Workers and sympathizers augmented by some 5,000 members from nearby Flint and Pontiac. But while downtown was literally mad, East Lansing, three miles distant, was minding its own affairs, college students were attending classes as usual. At 4:10 p. m. an unauthorized "flying squadron" made up of the prime downtown hell-raisers entered East Lansing with an eye to closing business establishments and the restaurants. These first 60-odd men closed all stores along the main street with the exception of one-a pocket...
...reading "Complaints." When an irate subscriber comes up to the counter to raise the devil about something, Tomas arches his back and rubs up against the fellow's shoulder, purring amiably. He knows by experience that it goes far to take the edge off the subscriber's mad...
...Governor promptly ordered the Cambria works shut down "until further notice." Hopping mad, President Grace sent a sizzling protest to the Governor, warning that "the responsibility for the great losses which our employes, their families and this company and its stock-holders are bound to suffer . . . will be upon you and the Commonwealth." Smoke continued to belch from the stacks of the Cambria works...
...into the night's vastness, Everywhere is the atmosphere of study. But in Lowell House tower there is a stirring. No lights, but a sinister, dark figure outlined vaguely against the open window. Someone sneaking up there to shatter the silence of a pre-exam night by jazzing those mad Russian bells? No. A quiet retreat wherein to grind out a futile string of oaths to help relieve the jitters...