Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hope when I saw that four Governmental instructions had been framed with extraordinary partiality toward those who were culpable . . . [officials who] had supinely allowed the burning of churches, private houses, offices and workshops before the eyes of a passive and impotent public. . . . The regime was that of Parliamentarianism gone mad. . . . The extremists of the Popular Front knew well how to maintain themselves without the Cabinet. The latter was nothing more than a pliable instrument, the mere plaything of the real power...
...already may have saluted your campus. John Held, Jr., actually went to no college at all. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, he started work as a cartoonist at the age of 18. Thereafter he studied youth in the college of experience and found it as dizzy, as dance mad, as genially addle-pated as Jack Oakie's charges are every Tuesday night to the music of Benny Goodman's orchestra...
...figures. Copper, which was 13? per Ib. a month ago, was boosted for the fourth time this year to 16?, while in London, where speculation in metals is now as wild as Wall Street's wildest days in stocks, copper soared above 17½?. So mad was the copper market that Business Pundit Bertie Charles Forbes quoted level-headed President Shattuck Gates of big Phelps Dodge Corp. as declaring: "This is no time to whoop things up, to send prices of copper skyrocketing. . . . The industry was making steady progress in a satisfactory way. It would be a pity...
...soul her own, and not be accused of witchcraft because she had certain marks on her body which every woman was not afflicted with, Briget fights her way through the terrors of a trial and an execution to preserve the reputation of her daughter and save her from a mad people who knew not what they...
...naturally of that level. The constant hammering of a joke does not, however, seem absolutely necessary. The sequences depicting life in a newspaper office are, as usual, somewhat strange. But this is a minor point, for one of the film is done in a serious vein; and the mad antics of city editor Ameche and star reporter Power only add to the zest of the thing...