Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Friday, Ambassador Belt flew back to Washington. Prio still had his job (and three new men in his Cabinet). Too smart to make Grau mad by an open declaration of candidacy now, Belt had simply fixed his fences. An old schoolmate of his now manned the pivotal Interior ministry...
...peeking down side alleys. Even so, 73 reporters, photographers and radiomen got set to sail or fly (round trip fare, $1,084) to Moscow. Then the Russians suddenly set a U.S. quota of only 20 (blaming it on the housing shortage). Last week the press was howling mad. In Washington a committee of correspondents spent three days trying to whittle down the press party, finally sent a priority list of 52 to State Secretary George Marshall with a strong protest against the "shockingly inadequate" quota. The New York Times and leftist PM, on the same side of the fence...
...House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee turned up a juicy bit. Russia, it found, had refused to return, or pay for, the 95 ships lent to her during the war, despite repeated requests from the State Department. Roaring mad, the committee threatened to subpoena Secretary of State Marshall to explain...
...Canetti now lives) and set the critics ablaze pro & con. "Mere Central-European portentousness . . . at once heavy and trivial. . . . A terrific and inconsequent to-do about trifles,"harrumphed the dignified London Times Literary Supplement. "Appalling, magnificent," exclaimed the Spectator, "screams and bellows of evil out of which [a] supremely mad, unfaceable book is orchestrated . . . of which we dare not deny the genius...
...weeks he has been fleeced of his last penny, beaten up again and reduced to skin & bones. When at last Kien's brother, a famed psychiatrist, gets wind of the professor's plight and restores him to his old life, it is too late-Kien, incurably mad, burns himself and his library to the ground...