Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year 1934 progressed," Mr. Singer writes in a rapid style, only exceeded in speed by his machine-gun-like line of talk, "all the cops in the whole Harvard College had my name on their lips. Here was someone who had avoided them for two years and they were mad. They knew I was walking by them every night...
...organized a Committee of 400 to choose a Republican for Governor and to discuss the new deal. If Mr. Macy had so desired, he could have regarded this slightly unusual procedure as an attempt to cooperate, but it was then he took to hysterics and became a mad man. His invective against James Wadsworth, whom the Committee planned to choose, was counteracted by a lucky break. The same morning the Committee announced that they wanted Robert Moses, the park commissioner who designed Jones Beach and the Northern State Parkway and an ardent anti-new dealer as their candidate. Young...
...flowed along the Irish roads into cat-famed Kilkenny last week was no ordinary market-day job. For weeks Irish farmers have fought off government collectors come to get the annuity tax. Last week the tax collectors seized the delinquents' cows. A cordon of police accompanied the herd. Mad as Kilkenny cats, the farmers went ahead, felling trees across the road and cutting telephone and telegraph wires. Patiently cows, collectors and police plodded over all obstructions into Kilkenny (known to its own citizens as Cill Cainnig). A sullen mob of farmers watched as an auctioneer sold the herd...
...Mad Ravings...
...classman may take him at his word, the sharp-eyed graduate student who is versed in the traditions of Cambridge notes the square area on the doors, whence a plate has been removed, and at once remembers the true story of the car's past life, and discounts Silas' mad ravings for cobwebs and moontalk...