Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Riding High (Paramount), with Dorothy Lamour, Victor Moore and Dick Powell all astraddle it and spurring like mad, gallops through some handsome Technicolored Arizona landscapes and fetches up nowhere in particular. Originally, Paramount planned a film about the Calgary Stampede. What emerges is a complicated musical involving a show girl (Dorothy Lamour) whose father owns a dud silver mine, a counterfeiter (Victor Moore) who looks like a snide old deacon, and a young fellow (Dick Powell) who can't decide just how honest is honest enough. Toothy Cass Daley, the pauper's Beatrice Lillie, may tickle groundlings...
These charges made most life-insurance men, who regard their companies as models of business propriety, hopping mad. But they were determined not to get into an uncontrollable brawl. They left all the talking to the president of the Canadian Life Insurance Officers' Association, staid Henry William Manning. Snorted Mr. Manning: "The investigation is farcical as well as political and needlessly disturbing to 4,000,000 policyholders...
Last week Marine Major General Holland M. ("Howlin' Mad") Smith, who commanded amphibious operations in the assault on the Gilbert Islands, spoke to home folks who had quailed at the losses on Tarawa (TIME...
...direct current would pass from the negative electrode." Cooper had not tried it. He simply decided it must be so. It was. Because it interfered with General Electric's profitable business in mechanical transformers, the corporation sued Cooper. Their lawyer discovered a forgery in their evidence, got so mad he made the corporation buy Cooper's patent...
...being gagged in any way on criticism, Jimmy Durante may conceivably louse up the air tomorrow, and we're going to say so. Only the tempus fugit department will show that. ... If tempus fugits like mad, how can you maintain the status...