Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matador but it had been many a year since he clipped a coleta in his hair and stepped into the ring. Finally the gathering broke up and Antonio Sanchez walked home to save money. Near the central market he heard shouts and a great splintering of wood. Mad as a bullring champion was a snorting beef bull that had escaped from a slaughter house herd and was charging back & forth ankle deep in cabbages, beets, potatoes and the wreckage of vegetable stalls...
...mad stampede to stock up before the tax becomes law, dealers have kept the soap works running night & day. Warehouses are crammed. Retailers have passed the word on to housewives and bathroom shelves are piled high. The trade is usually stocked for about a fortnight but the supply is now sufficient for three months. Whether or not the tax is passed, Col. William Cooper Procter and all the other U. S. soap makers must wait a long, long time before the last cake of tax-free soap goes down the trap in suds...
...father used to say that men and women are always driving one another mad...
Admiral Rodman was mad clear through. The Navy, his Navy, to which he had given 47 years of his life, had been grossly libeled by a young whippersnapper who knew nothing about the service. Later Admiral Rodman penned more than 1,000 indignant words to Secretary of the Navy Swanson. Excerpts...
...matter which should be as simple as the shooting of a couple of mad dogs involves the constant bombast of attorneys, the endless slush of newspaper columns, and the preparing of a jury for its labors by taking it en bloc to a baseball game...