Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many Pacific war observers-especially Marines-believe that by such incomprehensible devotion to self-destruction Japanese military fanatics are building up to a super-Wagnerian climax which might result, if carried to its mad extreme, in the virtual annihilation-self-inflicted or imposed-of one of the nations of mankind. Recent suicides (military and civilian) indicate that the Jap yen for suicide is due less to fear of torture and imprisonment by U.S. captors than to a belief that somehow each death provides "a shield for the Emperor" and "contributes to the inevitable victory...
...Shelby Carpenter (Vincent Price), under the very nose of his only visible means of support, Park Avenue's well-heeled Ann Treadwell (Judith Anderson). Both Ann and Waldo are patently annoyed; and when Shelby, who has become engaged to Laura, starts dating one of her models, everyone is mad enough to kill. Someone does...
...Department predicted that the quantity of goods bought this year would be only 15% greater than in 1939, and 5% less than in 1941. But the Department's report confirmed what every housewife knows: sky-high retail prices make purchases of essentials seem like a mad squandering of money. Thus the dollar volume of retail sales this year are guesstimated at an alltime peak of $67 billion - up 60% over 1939, and 20% over...
...Lakmé and the Queen of the Night Aria from The Magic Flute had roused admiration and curiosity. But until this week, almost none of her phonographic fans had heard her in the flesh. When she walked on Carnegie Hall's stage and launched into Lucia's Mad Scene and an assortment of Mozart and Verdi fireworks, they lent attentive ears. Soprano Korjus flatted on a couple of high notes, sang a phrase or two off pitch. Her high Ds and Fs were a little strident. But she handled most of her arias with grace and ease...
...London poorhouse in 1939 Biographer Longaker found the woman who witnessed his death. Destitute and half-mad, the old woman told the story of Ernest Dowson...