Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army has exploded the myth of German invincibility and shattered the illusion of the Blitzkrieg. The mad Fascist beast is bleeding profusely...
...effect of this escape was to make Argentines hopping mad at the German Embassy and all its works. Conservatives in the Chamber of Deputies hitherto had been leery of Investigator Damonte's work because it made political capital for the Radicals. Three days after Gottfried Sandstede's flight Raúl Damonte submitted a report signed by all members of his committee, including the Conservatives. Findings...
...said Dr. Myerson, if one looks far enough, there is plenty of insanity in every family. What distinguishes the New England Brahmins is a scarcity of schizophrenia (split personality), idiocy and other forms of elation and despair, whose "fundamental basis," said Dr. Myerson, "is an inherited constitution." In the mad New Englanders this inheritance was intensified by a high degree of intermarriage. One distinguished family has had 16 inmates in McLean Hospital...
...included "the assistance of a vast American expeditionary force." When the President read that report he hit the ceiling. Steve Early, in no playful humor, called Senator Barkley, Representative Sol Bloom, other leaders in whom Roosevelt had confided, and accused them of misrepresenting the President's remarks. Hopping mad, the Congressmen elected Senator Barkley to go after Correspondent Manly...
...Lincoln bend gently over his wife, take her by the arm and lead her to the window. "Pointing to the battlements of the Insane Asylum . . ." he said, "Mother, do you see that large white building on the hill yonder? Try and control your grief, or it will drive you mad, and we may have to send you there." And all the while, "like a drug for her tortured nerves, she indulged in her orgies of buying things . . . things she could never use, for which she could never hope to pay." In four months she bought 300 pairs of gloves...