Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congressmen were not exactly shaken by the movie. But some of them were mad. Somebody remembered that Norwegian Parliament members had been shown gory German pictures of the Polish invasion just before Nazis invaded Norway. Alabama's Joe Starnes huffed that it was "pure propaganda and I'd like to know whose." Newsmen had no trouble finding out who had arranged the showing-dumpy, bespectacled Ross Collins of Meridian, Miss., who for 15 of his 18 years in Congress has been plumping for mechanization of the Army. For 14 of those years drawling Representative Collins made no progress...
...with a carving knife. Such behavior was considered extraordinary even in literary circles that included Cole ridge, Godwin, Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt and De Quincey. While friends hushed up the tragic affair, Mary Lamb was sent away to a private asylum (Charles had already passed six weeks in the Hoxton mad house). Coleridge wrote her letters of metaphysical commiseration, which baffled Charles and may have enraged Mary. One day after her release she was quietly talking to Coleridge. Suddenly she seized his wrist, fixed him with a glassy...
Into Manhattan's Hotel Commodore last week swarmed 750 members of the National Association of Building Owners and Managers. Coming from 70 U. S. cities, they were hornet-mad about a politico-economic national scandal. The scandal is that urban property taxes are so high that they drive population to suburbs, so that city real estate and city governments face bankruptcy together. Of the gross annual income of $7,000,000,000 derived from U. S. real estate, $4,500,000,000 goes for taxes...
...deep-southern mill town a half-mad anarchist, a Negro doctor desperate to free his race, a girl who loves music, and a quiet, watchful cafe owner all come to share a mystical admiration for deaf-mute John Singer. Out of Singer's stunned face and his silence, each of the four constructs an image of absolute understanding, a godlike sounding board for prayerlike confessions. The fact that Singer himself is coolly puzzled by them, is himself even more piteously dependent than they, escapes them. The fact that no one of them can understand the other they scarcely realize...
...fighting mad...