Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This thing carries by sheer weight of numbers. And in spite of its unusual nature, the tried and true attractions are by no means omitted. There is love triumphant over sad misunderstandings; there is the mad race to effect the reconciliation. In fact, there is no questioning the quantity, and the quality is in strict keeping with the names involved...
...hardly necessary to recite the mad plot of "The Man Who Knew Too Much"; for at least a year it has been incorporated into our modern folk-lore. Leslie Banks is fine as one of the harassed, trouble-seeking parents, and Nova Pilbeam, since grown to royal stature in "Nine Days a Queen" is credible as the kidnapped child. And of course Peter Lorre, as the ringleader of the ugliest gang over collected within the walls of one studio, contributes that famous characterization of controlled deadly ferocity...
...dashed at dawn to Floyd Bennett Field where Pilot Bjorkvall at first would not speak to her. Eventually she cornered him in a hangar from which she presently emerged in tears. Said she. "I'm grounded. ... I expect he wishes to have all the publicity. I'm mad, but I'm a lady and cannot swear...
Street cars in Manila stopped suddenly to let crew and passengers run in mad panic one day last week. In mad panic storekeepers bolted their doors. In mad panic constables fled from main streets. In mad panic soldiers on guard at the palace, where President Manuel Quezon of the Philippines was secluded, flourished weapons against the saddest paraders Manila had ever seen. Chanting "Give us Liberty or Give us Death," flaunting the same cry on placards, 235 lepers who are normally cooped up in Manila's San Lazaro Hospital marched through the city's streets, with...
...features. When that fails, Surgeons Tickle and Sullivan splice a piece of healthy nerve taken from the patient's thigh into the dying nerve of his face. The frequent success of this reparative operation was spoiled by an occasional misadventure. In some patients the operation caused a mad, uncontrollable jigging and grimacing of the treated half of the face...