Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Awakening. Last fall Publisher Bowles, still mad at the printers, suddenly shut up shop rather than sign a contract with them. Deprived of news, Springfield was jolted into realizing what it can mean to be a monopoly town...
...Sixth Army's General Walter Krueger, hero of the Philippines, had turned in his uniform and was living in retirement in San Antonio. The Marine Corps' fire-eating General "Howlin' Mad" Smith had holed up in La Jolla, Calif...
...Chicago Black Hawk swung the first punch and Detroit's Red Wings shook off their heavy gloves-the better to bash an enemy nose. Reinforcements swarmed on to the ice from both benches; Referee Frank ("King") Clancy, who wasn't mad at anybody until he got slugged by a zealous spectator, began swinging too. For twelve minutes, with no cops in sight, there was bedlam last week in Chicago's jampacked Stadium...
...length Johnny falls into the hands of three shoddy, half-mad symbols of three strong human drives. An artist (Robert Newton), foaming with delusions of genius, tries to paint the death in his eyes; a doctor (Elwyn Brook-Jones) patches him up for the sake of his own lost pride; the third man (F. J. McCormick) schemes to sell him to the highest bidder. Under these frenzied circumstances, the delirious hero shouts his own conversion and the story's master theme: "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not charity, I am become...
...Movieman L. B. Mayer's favored Stepfather finished first in a mad scramble down the stretch in Santa Anita's $50,000 San Vicente Handicap. Then three rival jockeys complained that Stepfather had fouled them in a bumping bee, and for 16 minutes the judges debated. Their decision: disqualify Stepfather, make second place Hubble Bubble the winner...