Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Droll is the boisterous, pratt-fall comedy of Guernsey-bosomed, muskellunge-mouthed Martha Raye; hilarious the portrayals of Concho, the Lone Rider's Indian chum, by flap-eared, long-nosed Bert Gordon (Radio's "Mad Russian"), whose accent is as thick as borsch with sour cream. Filling in for Ruby Keeler, who left the company in Chicago when ex-Husband Jolson's ad-libbing got in her hair, neatly turned Eunice Healey steps with precision through a show-stopping...
...that moment in its apparent southward motion it crosses the celestial equator, stands vertically over the earth's equator. And that moment will be heralded by many a U. S. newspaper as summer's end. Thereupon Physicist William Warner Sleator of the University of Michigan will get mad again...
...ordinary. Hedy Lamarr gets the worst of it, appearing late in the picture, and leaving early after a few appearances, looking just fine but not saying much. The other three do what they have to do very pleasantly, falling in love with the proper intensity, and getting awfully mad now and then. That's the way those oil people were, maybe...
Recalling Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase, the Star-Times jibed: "The Post-Dispatch of that day was the Columbian Centinel of Boston, and its conduct is described in five words by Claude Bowers in Jefferson in Power: 'The Columbian Centinel went mad.' . . . [The Centinel declared] that Jefferson had given away 'nearly all the gold and silver in the United States.' And for what? 'Wild land.' Land of which 'we do not want a foot.' Jefferson, it moaned, 'had run in debt for Mississippi moonshine $15,000,000. . . . There were appeasers...
...Between Men and Women, foreseen by the mad fancy of James Thurber, comes to pass, Gertrude Atherton will be the Stonewall Jackson of the rebel females. The House of Lee, a tale of a girl of 22, her mother of 40, her grandmother of 60, is not so noteworthy because of its strident feminism as because of its rampant, 82-year-old author...