Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opening round on Los Angeles' Rancho course, Mike DiCesaro of Houston got mad after losing to Ted Grassi of Erie, Pa. He let out a squawk to the rules committee, got Grassi disqualified for using clubs with illegal face grooves. Next day, Grassi followed DiCesaro around, heckling him continually and calling attention to his clubs, finally got him disqualified for using equally illegally grooved clubs...
When Salvador Dali's ballet, Mad Tristan, opened in Manhattan in 1944, it provided one critic with "a 25-minute yawn." Most other balletgoers yawned, too, if not so long-windedly, and Mad Tristan flopped. Last week, the Grand Ballet de Monte Carlo had given it five performances in London. This time the madness proved catching...
...Hopping mad, the National Retail Dry Goods Association, instead of blaming the retailer who blabbed, last week gave Goodall a tongue-lashing: "A black eye for . . . fair-trade . . . A policy error of the first magnitude . . ." Goodall, said an association spokesman, ought to rebate the profits every retailer lost on the premature sales. Whoever was right, the shopper was getting the benefits; last week in Manhattan Gimbels offered men's tropical rayons...
...Like watching the March hare playing tricks on an indulgent mad hatter," said the Manchester Guardian of Harpo & Chico Marx, now appearing on the London stage (Groucho was at home). The London Times burbled: "What makes these great clowns is this combination of fun and fantasy with something else, a mixture of worldly wisdom and naïveté, of experience but also of an innocence never altogether lost, of dignity and absurdity together, so that for a moment we love and we applaud mankind...
Owlish, excitable Ralph Coghlan (rhymes with oglin') has a singular facility for making people mad. In ten often-turbulent years as editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's editorial page, he has assailed, annoyed and angered many a judge, politician and businessman. Sometimes his editorial trumpeting was in the best crusading tradition of the Post-Dispatch; at other times, it was shrill...