Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think that a country like ours could produce such a specimen! I am not talking about his physical features, because no man can help that, but our lives are reflected in our faces as we grow in years, and . . . John L. Lewis has developed the cruelty of a man mad for power . . . who cares not what happens to the rest of humanity...
...Lord Randolph Churchill, as Secretary of State for India in 1885, ordered a British expeditionary force to depose Burma's mad King Theebaw and formally join the country, which had been under British influence for 60 years, to the Empire...
...other encounter, a close call, had spared Runyon's life but struck him dumb. His larynx had been removed, to check a throat cancer. Since then, his gold pencil, by swift jottings in a loose-leaf notebook, had done all his talking for him. ("When he was mad," said a pal, "he'd just write in big, bold letters.") In "Mindy's," at Table 50 in the Cub Room of the Stork Club, and all along Broadway, the hard, bright, tawdry street that was his beat, the guys and dolls had known he was on borrowed time...
Twelve fighting-mad Protestant ministers of Steubenville, Ohio decided that the only way to deal with their city's sin was literally to go gunning for it. They asked for permission to turn themselves and their aides into a pistol-packing vice squad, pledged to a "dirty war" on "the indecent elements which are attacking the very citadel of city life...
...World War II histories, the shrillest (and most adeptly plugged by the press-gents) was likewise one of the most widely read: Ralph Ingersoll's bitter Top Secret, a boiling-mad assault on British wartime policies and "politics" which told more about Author Ingersoll than it did about the British. No top-ranking general told his own story, though Katherine Tupper Marshall told her husband's, Ike Eisenhower had a tactful Boswell in his naval aide, Harry C. Butcher (My Three Years with Eisenhower), and General Lewis H. Brereton published his diaries, which made...