Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bought, through an agent, $252.50 worth of Revolutionary General "Mad Anthony" Wayne's letters at a Manhattan Americana sale...
...pink water. Ruth Page was an alluring young heroine in leg-of-mutton sleeves and a big straw hat. She danced away fleetly with an elderly merchant because his hind pockets bulged with gold. But at the end she was back with her young lover, whirling in a mad cancan. Chicagoans left the opera house marveling at what Dancer Page had accomplished with a comparatively new troupe, marveling at the courage and energy it required to attempt to emancipate opera ballet. After the performance Dancer Page took her first recreation in weeks, went to a champagne supper which Harold Fowler...
...give everyone who has a telephone a different number on a different exchange. Where before stood University and Porter, here are Trowbridge, Eliot, and Kirkland. Although at first this seems merely a further play on the part of the Company to befuddle the subscriber and make him mad, it is really a very logical institution...
...Hook 'Em Cows" are affluent, football-mad livestock commission merchants and packers of the Twin Cities. Since Stan Kostka comes from a little farm near South St. Paul, the stockyard centre of Minnesota, and has two brothers working in the stockyards, he has a natural claim to "Hook 'Em Cow" loyalty. He scored none of Minnesota's five touchdowns against Chicago last week, but his runs, swift and swaying like a cowboy, and his bowling-ball interference helped make them possible. Although he has not been a full-time player, in the first six games...
...husband she wanted to elope with a traveling salesman. Helpful Mr. Garrett sent the children to a neighbor's, borrowed a car, offered his services as chauffeur. Together Sam Garrett & wife & rival set out on the elopement. Explained Mr. Garrett: "I didn't want to make her mad." Struck with remorse at her husband's unselfishness, Mrs. Garrett changed her mind, called off the elopement...