Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese, not signatories to the treaty, are catching them like mad.) Consequently the whale meat soon to be offered in U.S. butcher shops (price: probably about 35? a pound) will be from the tougher but still palatable finbacks...
Smirkily they depart, leaving their dirty work behind them. The discovery is made, consternation reigns, and the Housemistress gets mad as hell. She decides to eliminate the nasty evil smelling little thing. But some sweatered bio major says: "They told me in the course I took, that human embryos are hard to get. That mewling mess is valuable...
Colorado's Anglo-Irish Governor John C. Vivian permitted a bill designating Oct. 9 as Leif Ericson Day, in honor of the "discovery of North America in 1000 A.D.," to become law without his signature. Reasons: 1) Colorado's Scandinavians would be mad if he vetoed it; 2) Colorado's Italians would be mad if he signed...
...battle began the moment Maxon sat down. Fortnight ago the slide-rulers petitioned Boss Brown to remove Maxon, as he was using "public office to further private interests and private views." The OPA boss, good & mad, retorted with a sharp memo to his staff: henceforth, all "plans, orders, field instructions, questionnaires, enforcement regulations" were to clear through Lou Maxon. Last week Prentiss Brown went further. Henceforth OPA's 2,700 lawyers, backbone of the slide-rule cabal, will merely give "legal counsel." Messrs. Brown and Maxon stood shoulder to shoulder...
...American number combines hot dancing with jokes ("Army life is terribly strict-lights out at 9 o'clock, women out at 10"). For the finale, veterans of World War I clamber on to the stage while the cast slides into the past with Tipperary, Pack Up Your Troubles, Mad'moiselle from Armentieres. Then the cast roars into the future with...