Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some of your peddlers get shot by local citizens . . . don't you cry, he said oh well I'll put a big black circle around Wharton county and work the rest of the state and nation. I told him good by, and he left mad, and I was glad...
...background is another dramatic period of U.S. history: the fierce Indian uprisings that followed Custer's last stand. But despite hordes of hopping-mad Cheyennes in full war paint, there is not a first-class Injun fight in the whole film. For some unaccountable reason the hair-raising possibilities of authentic history have been submerged in the muddled and often maudlin story of an overaged cavalry officer (John Wayne) in a U.S. Army outpost. More unaccountably, the paste-pot yarn was put together by two veteran scripters: Frank Nugent and Laurence Stallings...
Majority Leader Scott Lucas was boiling mad at Barkley, whom he accused of "telling me what to do all evening." Barkley, equally irritated, rumbled: "I have not done any such thing." Vermont's Aiken cried: "The Senate has now out Brannaned the Brannan plan." He said that the 90% amendment would make the bill as expensive and control-ridden as Secretary of Agriculture Brannan's tricky scheme, which the Senate shies from...
Grandfather of the Year (named by Chicago's Grandfathers and Grandmothers Club): Vice President Alben W. Berkley ("all the world loves a lover"). Grandmother of the Year: mad-hatted Hollywood Gossipist Hedda Hopper ("interested in everything that women are interested...
Busy with TV rehearsals and with plans to play the Mad Hatter in Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland, Wynn saw but one roadblock on his upward path. "The only trouble with television," he said thoughtfully, "is that you can be wonderful this week and just as bad the next...