Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This immediately sent political reporters into long columns of feverish speculation. They examined this meager phrase, with all the care of a music critic listening to Lily Pons hitting the F above high C in the mad scene from Lucia. Was Mr. Dewey now a millimeter's distance more available? Or less...
...with heavy shells or bombs. Often a 2,000-lb. bomb, striking within a few feet of a pillbox and digging a 15-ft. hole, merely threw more sand on top of the Jap fortifications. Surveying Betio's defenses after the battle, Marine Major General Holland ("Howlin' Mad") Smith, chunky, bespectacled commander of amphibious operations, said: "It looks beyond the realm of human possibility that this place could have been taken...
Tiger at the Crouch. Many men-including men who have served under him-call Chennault a genius. But an Army colonel who was with him in China said: "I get irritated when I hear people calling Chennault a genius. He isn't. A genius would probably go mad out there...
...Away, Old Man (by William Saroyan; produced by George Abbott) sicks one of the most unpredictable of playwrights on one of the screwiest of subjects-Hollywood. When the two collide at their looniest, Get Away, Old Man has some uproarious moments. But Playwright Saroyan's mad visions of Hollywood are curdled by his sour memories: for once, the theater's leading apostle of brotherly love is out to take a poke. His movie producer (Edward Begley) is a nauseous phony, a vicious heel. Saroyan is equally out to take a bow. His genius (Richard Widmark) of a scriptwriter...
...Publisher Silliman Evans finally pot ripsnorting mad. Sun men went out to investigate. The usually meek Sun thereupon came out with these headlines: LABOR ASSAILS TRIBUNE SMEAR and TRIBUNE LIES. . . . Said the Sun: The Tribune's campaign was a "rotten and reckless piece of work ... a giant fake" born of the "fevered delusions and prejudices" of the Tribune's "hate-filled" Publisher Robert R. McCormick...