Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forth, checked down to the last word. Minister Lyttelton promptly issued a statement explaining that his remarks were intended only as a compliment, but purple-tempered old Cordell Hull was not appeased. "In all my career," said one State Department oldtimer, "I have never seen Mr. Hull get so mad...
...Tricolor. But in Bayeux I heard a story that probably reveals the temper of France better than anything else one could see or hear in isolated Normandy. A young man who had come from Paris three days before the invasion said that there, all the young people are mad for jazz music and the young men now wear zoot suits. He understood that this was a manifestation of desperation and revolt. But as he whistled snatches of tunes and spoke of le jazz hot, his eyes glistened as if he too were a little bit mad...
...took a smoke, cleaned the brass up in the tank and stuff. Then one of the Frenchmen comes up with a bottle of wine and we all had a smoke and drank the bottle of wine. A shell lands behind the tank and sort of makes us mad so we get back in and start shooting away again. And the people just standing there on the sidewalk. . . . P.S. My company has the credit for taking Bizerte and the airport and some five hundred planes and equipment there. No other company holds such a record...
Almost unique for a period chiller is the simplicity of the plot: it's about a pianist (Boyer) who marries (Bergman) and, for the sake of a few diamonds, tries to drive his wife mad to get her put away and enable him to search her house for the coveted stones. Joseph Cotten is a hawkshaw from Scotland Yard who pulls the here act. Director George Cuckor carries the audience along with all the stages of deliberately produced insanity partly by keeping the plot moving and partly by knocking all of the "For Whom the Bell Tolls" freshness...
...Senate Military Affairs Committee was still mad at blustery Lieut. General George Smith Patton Jr. for his unsoldierly outbursts in Sicily. Last week it dropped Georgie Patton from a list of 14 general officers slated for permanent promotions in the Regular Army...