Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Idiocy. Frozen-faced Hisakichi Tokuda, the "Mad Doctor" of Shinagawa Prison, had found amusement in injecting soybean protein into the veins of prisoners. One victim had been British Merchant Mariner William Holland. The court heard how Holland's legs had jumped and his mouth foamed in howling idiocy before he died...
...Every major event in the hero's life occurs, symbolically enough, on a Great Day in American History--Johnny Shawnessy is married (to a girl from the South) on the day John Brown is hanged; his son is born on the first day of the War; his wife goes mad simultaneously with the Battle of Gettysburg; and so on. His boyhood friends become symbols of American types--the ruthless financier, the self-improving politician, the cynical intellectual. And more subtle symbolism continues, page after page. More and more we see Shawnessy's self-identification with the County, with the river...
...home spinning wheel than to be less poor and frightened with a great steel mill. He combined the elements into a belief of Christlike simplicity: oppose hate with love, greed with openhandedness, lust with self-control; harm no feeling creature. Of material progress, he said: "I heartily detest this mad desire to destroy distance and time...
...drop 50,000 leaflets. Cried one of her fans: "She's like Napoleon come back from Elba." But her opponent, Miss Liu, tearfully pulled a few wires. Result: the day before election, Miss Li's name was scratched from the list of candidates. "I'm so mad!" quivered Miss...
Under the Wiggins leadership, the Chamber set off a massive publicity campaign to lure settlers. Items: pamphlets entitled "Land of Heart's Desire," barnstorming trains full of oversized California vegetables, claims that "mad dogs and sunstroke are never known here." Under Wiggins, the Chamber spearheaded the development of the city's $220,000,000 aqueduct and its $59,000,000 artificial harbor. His uninhibited supersalesmanship put the Los Angeles Chamber...