Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When I start worrying over my shots and getting mad at myself, I'm going to give up tournament golf and go back to work," grinned fun-loving Golfer Demaret (rhymes with croquette) as he pocketed $700 first-prize money, bringing his eight weeks' earnings to $6,077. Though he had won five of the season's nine tournaments and earned twice as much as his nearest rival, Jimmy's confrères as well as the galleries saluted him last week. "It couldn't have happened to a nicer fellow," they chorused...
Exhausted after three straight hours of rehearsed at the Schubert theatre, Colbina Wright, Jr. sunk into a vacant seat and smiled wearily: "Now do you wonder why I get mad when people ask me whether I am serious about my career? Do you think I'd be working like this if I was just having a good time, Why last spring in New York we played 45 shows a week with Eddie Cantor...
Bertrand Russell has bright blue eyes, a big nose and very little chin, looks like Alice in Wonderland's Mad Hatter. The British upper classes believe that he is mad. For 30 years Earl Russell has scandalized them with his unconventional ideas about politics, marriage, education. According to one tale, a local rector, visiting an unorthodox school for children that Bertrand Russell and the second of his three wives ran in Hampshire a few years ago, knocked on the door, which was opened by a nine-year-old girl, stark naked. Cried he: "Good God!" Retorted she, slamming...
Married. Maria Rasputin Soloviev, 39, animal tamer, self-styled daughter of Russia's "Mad Monk"; Gregory Rasputin; and one Gregory Bernadsky, 39; in Miami...
Heartily condemning the present war in Europe, Representative Fish warned against all "iams" (except Americanism), which might entangle the nation in it. "If these old nations of the world insist on going stark, raving mad, arming to the teeth, going to war, and committing suicide, there is no reason why we should commit suicide...