Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rumble of railroad trains and the feverish knock of a mad brain: this is the not exactly gleeful melody of "The Human Beast". Jean Gabin is the uncouth locomotive driver whose blood is polluted with the insane urge to kill those whom he loves; Simon Simon, his sweetheart and victim, is a mouse-like beauty whose coquetry instils the audience, too, with murderous desires. Jean Renoir's direction provides scenes of electrifying frankness and does more than full justice to the grim realism of Emile Zola, on whose novel of the same title "The Human Beast" is based. Two murders...
According to Finley, the present demand for vocational training has come from parents made security-mad by the depression, hoping that training received in college will assure their children of a position on graduation...
...Germany going to persuade Italy to front for peace, thus bringing her into more cordial relations with Russia? Was Italy, raging mad at Great Britain on account of the coal controversy (see col. 3), to make her final choice and plunge into the war on Germany's side? No. As it turned out, Herr Ribbentrop was just going to see the Pope...
...Fighting mad over this reaction, Mitch fairly outdid himself by "exposing" on the very next day "a violent disturbance" at the air training centre near St. Thomas, Ont., where he declared several hundred fed-up and disgusted recruits had gone A. W. O. L. The New York Post gave the story front-page prominence, headlining it "Mutiny," and the German radio broadcast it as evidence of disunion in Canada. "I did not mention the word mutiny or the word riot," hedged Mitch. "I said there was a violent disturbance and there was." Norman Rogers, Canadian Minister of Defense, promptly...
...Mad as a wet hen last week was the Christian Century. This most influential U. S. Protestant weekly had been mad the week before, and the week before that, and the week before that. What made it mad was thinking about one thing-President Roosevelt's Christmas appointment of Myron Charles Taylor as his personal ambassador to the Pope. The Christian Century disliked the appointment in the first place, liked it less when it appeared that the President had jockeyed Dr. George Arthur Buttrick, president of the Federal Council of Churches, into a position of apparent sympathy. The Christian...