Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Randolph Hearst will find means to ensure his getting no more than the fifty thousand votes he has been accustomed to win as a perennial Socialist candidate. It really is unfortunate, too, for an attempt to work out the EPIC plan would be a refreshing variation in the mad scramble for booty that goes under the name of politics in California. The sincere, if unsophisticated, idealism of this man who has never worn a dress suit would loom in joyous contrast to the urbanity and nonentity of "Sunny Jim" Rolph...
...exhausted. Once the girl took a flying leap and the boy caught her by one wrist and pulled her through the air. At the end of two hours the girl was wearing a flaming red cap, the boy a cockade on his chest and they were still going like mad...
Technical high spot of this show is Bil Bal Bul, the Little Acrobat, worked by four operators on 20 strings. He hunches himself to gather momentum as he swings in air, never fumbles when he clutches at the crossbar. Comic high spot is a mad pianist in "The Concert Party." A lacquer-haired caricature of Negro Singer Josephine Baker, star of a "Little Tropical Revue," wiggles and shakes menacingly. In "The Bullfight," a wilder burlesque than the others, a hollow-eyed toreador fliply kills the bull with super-human mag nificence. Plump, beaming Impresario Vittorio Podrecca adapted his Piccoli...
...eagerly to Professor Kemmerer who has taken the place of leader of the opposition theory, whose point was not a direct attack upon the Warren doctrine but that dollar tinkering brought danger of uncontrolled inflation, for there is no way of controlling public psychology once it goes inflation-mad...
...guns upon the iniquitous Boxers of Tientsin. For that they gave him the China Medal. In 1904, on the bridge of H. M. S. Dryad he plowed the Indian Ocean from the Strait of Malacca to the Gulf of Aden, trained his guns on Mohammed bin Abdullah, the mad Mullah of Somaliland. For that they made him a Medal & Clasp Commander. In 1914, -15, -16, -17 on the flagship of the British Destroyer Flotilla, he trained his guns on Austrian submarines. For that they gave him the D. S. 0. In 1918 he sat at the Admiralty desk of "Director...