Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weaken in your policy of debunking our worried wooing of the Latin American republics. By showing them that some of us are laughing with them you are rendering propaganda service of the best order. And then it helps to keep sensitive people like me from going mad when we learn that pictures like Argentine Nights are ever allowed south of the border. Sabotage...
...Howlin' Mad") Smith, the force had everything but a name...
...biggest press news in Washington last week was that the "White House gang" - the little group of reporters whose beat is covering the President - was hopping mad at Franklin Roosevelt. Most of them felt that the President had played them for suckers and they were no happier when other newsmen rubbed...
...Wertham's conclusion: Gino's murder of his mother was a safety valve, an act to preserve his sanity. If he had not killed his mother, he would have gone mad. Said the doctor: "Gino acted like a man who cuts off his arm to escape blood poisoning. By the cruel deed, he eradicated his own mother-complex." Such a violent act to release a neurosis Dr. Wertham calls "catathymic crisis." It accounts, says he, for many murders committed by otherwise sane persons. After the temporary aberration they may have a good chance of returning to sanity again...
...unprintable. Crack golfers, they used to play for $100 a hole. Fields, who says he would cheat his own grandmother for cash, generally managed to talk his opponent out of match and stakes. He has willed him (although La Cava doesn't know it) $5,000 for mad money...