Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tripped demure, blonde Ellen Berg,11. In a soprano that was emotionless, usually hall-size, usually on pitch, she sang an air from Mozart's Magic Flute. Sophisticated kids and mammas gave each other sidelong looks when Conductor Rudolph Ganz announced that Ellen Berg would next sing the Mad Scene from Lucia di Lammermoor. On that glassy surface, double-runners are not allowed. Coloratura Berg sailed out cleanly, figure-eighted through her trills, skidded a couple of times into her flute accompanist, ducked low to coast into her final note an octave below the conventional high E flat. Wisely...
...week's news of Christian confusion: ¶ In Genoa the Cardinal-Archbishop of Genoa, Pietro Boetto, got mad. Objecting to the shelling of Genoa by British warships, he spoke for God Almighty as follows: "The Lord, even in the sight of the innocent victims, will raise His merciful hand above us and will concede a complete triumph to our beloved country." > At the National Republican Club's Lincoln Day dinner, Episcopal Bishop William T. Manning of New York carefully instructed God Almighty as follows: "O God our Father . . . grant that we may give our utmost aid to Great...
...there were labormen present and active on the think level. Some labormen say the truce is only for the duration, that after the war business and labor will be fighting again. . . . But two things brought about this present cooperation:1) Hitler-when bombs started raining down, everyone got fighting mad, got together; 2) Britain's wartime leaders. Whatever Churchill's past mistakes, today he is the perfect rallying post. The cabinet is cohesive. And the King-duty sticks out all over him. He mixed a Scotch & soda for me himself...
...violent, lawless, desperate land, with a mighty black record compared to other nations. With this belief foreigners have been prompt to agree. But to many a reader of Valtin's real-life thriller, it came with a sudden shock of realization that other nations have their mad dogs too. Compared to them, such U. S. gangsters as Al Capone are very small change...
...Grade B melodrama is its sensitive delineation of Gangster Earle's character. Superbly played by Actor Bogart, Earle is a complex human being, a farmer boy who turned mobster, a gunman with a string of murders on his record who still is shocked when newsmen call him "Mad-Dog" Earle. He is kind to the mongrel dog (Zero) that travels with him, befriends a taxi dancer (Ida Lupino) who becomes his moll, goes out of his way to help a crippled girl (Joan Leslie). All Roy Earle wants is freedom. He finds it for good on a lonely peak...