Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While there is the very necessary and credible patriotic angle, it is fairly easy to see why most women would reply to requests for enlistments in the forces with alacrity. Try flashing a few bills in a girl's face. Doesn't she dash like mad to the closest half-decent dress shop? (Or are Madame's skirts being rationed to an unholy degree?) By the same token, the prospect of wearing a bright new uniform at no cost, or at a moderate fee to one's self, looms nicely in a girl's mind...
When Gottfried Sandstede fled, the Argentines were hopping mad. That was before Pearl Harbor, before their ships were sunk by Axis raiders, before they were formally accused by Sumner Welles of harboring Axis spies. The public at that time demanded the ousting of Nazi Ambassador Baron Edmund von Thermann. What might happen this time, if events followed a similar course, was anybody's guess. But it was clear that, as they already had in Chile (TIME, Nov. 16), the words of Sumner Welles were bearing overripe fruit in Argentina...
...Church saw 30 newly arrived Jap bombers lined up on the field. Two Zeros intercepted. Lieut. Church got one, Lieut. Wagner the other. Church was on fire, but he kept going and laid his bombs in the middle of the field before crashing. "I think a man really gets mad for the first time when he sees his friends killed," said Buzz later. That day he swept back & forth over the Jap planes until he had set them blazing...
...Mad Hatter of Alice's Wonderland had nothing on Ed Wagenfeld of Local 45 of the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union. But this latter day hatter, who divides his time between Adams House and Littauer as one of the fellows under Harvard's Trade Union plan, isn't eccentric like Lewis Carroll's haberdasher. He's just peeved; peeved at "hatless Harvard." Hats are bread and butter to Mr. Wagenfeld. Harvard men care very much for bread and butter; very little for hats...
...Ethiopia the Packards saw lagging Marshal Badoglio drive like mad to reach Addis Ababa at the head of his army. They also watched Blackshirt politicians arrive by plane to snatch a share in the victory publicity. Count Ciano took a hotel room next to the Packards' and joined them one night for a drink. "He was bubbling over with enthusiasm. 'England is through,' he said, 'or she would have taken a stronger stand against us. . . . We are ready for the future. We have the only experienced army in Europe as a result of our Ethiopian training...