Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lady customs agent with a small mustache told me to undress . . . everything, including my stockings and slippers. . . . They strewed the contents of my eight suitcases all over the place." Those two undeclared $100 bills that customs men found in her purse and confiscated? Sonja twittered: "It was just mad money I have carried for years in case of emergency, and I had forgotten all about...
...chief actor in this story-a gaunt, red-haired Californian whose pen name is Harold Maine-last week published his autobiography (If a Man Be Mad, Doubleday; $3). It is a sobering account, not only of a drunkard's inner agonies, but of U.S. mental hospitals...
...salt, scientifically designed clothes, insect control, new drugs (e.g., atabrine). Wartime scientific research, which solved many of the problems of tropical living, also debunked a few old notions: that meat-eating in the tropics is bad, that white men cannot do physical labor in the hot season, that only "mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday...
...foreign and domestic ; and of how the man and his policies changed in the process. Major scenes are Ivan's coronation; his destruction of the Tartar city of Kazan; his rising from his supposed deathbed to abash those who are plotting against his son's succession. Half mad with grief and self-doubt after his wife's murder and his best friend's treachery, Ivan abdicates. At the end of the picture, by request of the common people, he returns to the throne, confident of "everlasting rule." As Eisenstein tells it, this vindication of Ivan becomes...
Plangomeur was built by a buccaneer named La Hourie. Of all the pirate's heirs, only two women are left: fat, half-mad old Lucie La Hourie and her daughter-in-law Françoise...