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Word: madnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatest concentration of power, the largest fleet in the world. Working with Spruance is a mixed collection of Navy, Marine, Army and Air Force officers including the Navy's amphibious expert, high-domed Rear Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner; the Marines' amphibious expert, Major General Holland ("Howlin' Mad") Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE PACIFIC: The Way to Tokyo | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

...Parsons (from her first husband) turned authoress and brought forth her autobiography, The Gay Illiterate (Doubleday. Doran; $2), her wise publishers jumped their publication date and rushed a few carloads of the remarkable volume to Hollywood's bookstores in time for the Christmas rout. The book sold like mad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CURRENT & CHOICE: Hollywood's Back Fence | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

Next of Kin. Early last summer, when Bob Hope was about to board an Army bomber for Belfast, he was asked who should be notified in case of his injury or death. He named Hearstling Parsons as his next of kin. "She'd be mad," he explained, "if she wasn't the first to know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CURRENT & CHOICE: Hollywood's Back Fence | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

When Banker John Milton Nichols gets mad he stays mad (TIME, Oct. 19, 1936). He has been mad at the Administration since 1933, and last week he was still in there, seething...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Back to the Indians | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

...usually mellow London Economist was hopping mad. What had excited it, and other Britons, were the terms of the new settlement of Brazil's external debt, as they went into effect last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Tit for Tat? | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

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