Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British millionaire, Leonora Carrington was born 31 years ago in Lancashire. Brought up in European convents and finishing schools, she dutifully learned ladylike deportment. But she painted in a very unladylike manner: her first surrealist pictures were heavy with sex and horror. In 1940 she suddenly went mad, spent agonizing months in a Spanish asylum...
McConnell promptly filed Vandenberg's name, along with those of Dewey, Taft, Stassen, MacArthur, Warren and Speaker Joe Martin. "I suppose this makes you mad as the devil," said a reporter. "Period," said Vandenberg, grinning broadly...
...manufacturers chomped nervously on their cigars. This was not the kind of advice they were accustomed to hearing from anyone, let alone a Republican governor. But Big Jim was only warming up. Hopping mad about the latest goings-on in steel, he cried: "For one of our greatest corporations and one of our most powerful labor unions to take action, however separate, which has the effect of acting in concert to further raise prices, shows a shocking disregard for public opinion and the national welfare...
...desk for quiet meditation. Early last month he went to the summer capital, Kuling, with Madame Chiang and a small staff. When he did not return after the first few days, the rumor factories in Shanghai and Nanking got busy: the Gimo had been assassinated; he had gone mad; he was preparing to resign. One other rumor was actually true: the Generalissimo had indeed received additional U.S. technical help-he had just been fitted with a brand-new set of American false teeth...
...Gratitude. Mr. Wada, apparently more hurt by gibes at himself than by revelations of his inhumanity, compressed his lips, looked wanly at the floor. Finally, Tokuda and Wada heard their sentences. The "Mad Doctor" would be hanged. Mr. Wada would get life imprisonment instead of the rope; he had merely been an interpreter relaying orders...