Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President took his case to the nation over the radio. Tickets to Convention Hall had been carefully allotted to 14,500 of the faithful; actually 18,000 people jammed in; thousands more stood outside. When the President arrived on the stage at 9:12 p.m., the audience went mad as only good Democrats can, whistling, shouting, stamping...
...Minister of War, Minister of Marine, Air Minister. His chief hold on the King is a little secret between them: the King, who is always hard up, signed a decree paying himself his salary for the years of his exile, and the King knows that if Little John gets mad he will spill the story to the country...
...City's hen-shaped Mayor Fiorello ("Little Flower") LaGuardia, after collaring and shaking the shirt buttons off a tall Detroit heckler who dared ask whether Boss Flynn had sent him, toddled back to Manhattan, pitch-piped (to a N. Y. Herald Tribune Forum audience): "Myself, I never get mad...
...year Mein Kampf was published (1925) he began "his desperate, singlehanded, 14-year struggle for England's soul and power of vision" by writing three little-known essays. In Shall We All Commit Suicide? he warned that in Germany "science [had gone] mad in the hands of demon-ridden masses." In Mass Effects in Modern Life he warned that mass production found its political form in the Bolshevik state. In Fifty Years Hence Churchill forecast the rise of fascist states whose power would far exceed the intelligence of their rulers, whose intelligence would far exceed their morals...
...Take It With You. Broke, haunted by bumbailiffs, M'Lord and Lady and their six assorted offspring are full of charades, false whiskers and profound contempt for rich Uncle Gabriel.Touched for another loan, Uncle G. comes to call, bringing his wife, regarded by the Lampreys as mad if not actually a witch. Uncle G. expires with a silver-plated meat skewer in his eye; Detective-Inspector Alleyn puts them all through the hoops. Delightful story...