Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...verified the forged Vermeers, were now at work with their biggest X-ray machines and subtlest chemicals to prove Van Meegeren a fraud when his case comes up next month (although The Netherlands Government's information service has already said that "there can be no doubt that this mad genius did paint the seven pictures attributed to Vermeer...
Never have I been so mad as I was when reading [Orchestra Conductor] Rudolph Dunbar's letter (TIME...
...week's end, those few clear facts had been culled out of the mad confusion of the world press. In London, the Daily Mail fell overboard, estimated the value of the loot at $2 million. U.S. papers wildly reported that two socialite women were under suspicion, and that the Duchess had stored part of her million-dollar collection in a safe-deposit vault. The Duchess regretfully denied that one: ". . . It was stupid. I've been kicking myself all over the place." The Duchess was asked to describe the basis on which she selected jewels to match her costumes...
Although the chic Duchess was calm, the proud, pathetic little Duke was blazing mad. His never-good chance of a Government job (he wanted the Governor Generalship of Australia) had been crushed between the rollers of Fleet Street's presses...
...loneliness and by the discovery that his adored mother is an adulteress (a masterly story in itself), the boy steals money from his tutor and runs away. It looks like a triumph for Brigitte's self-righteousness. But the priest, though apparently defeated, finally wins her half-mad and remorseful soul...