Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world gone mad, religion, as always, provides the only haven. Its therapeutic powers may not be so consistently advertised as those of Mothersill's Seasick Remedy; but those of us who have sampled this medicine know that it is the only ultimate source of sanity, hope, and peace...
Chicago's raucous dailies have never outgrown their Front Page days; last week they romped through the Heirens story like street urchins frolicking at an open hydrant. Scuffling for scoops in a mad, midsummer rough-&-tumble, they whooped it up as the crime news of the century, unloaded extra after extra on willing Chicagoans...
Proper Name. In Honolulu, John Wahinehookae (Hawaiian for woman-hater) set fire to an apartment house, later explained that his ex-wife lived there and he was mad...
...almost as free with the profanity as ever. All the "mean things" the writers used to say about him had been true. As a gangling rookie with the San Diego Padres back in 1936, he was perhaps the worst outfielder ever to wear a glove. When the fans got mad at him for letting a grounder roll between his legs, he spent the rest of the afternoon talking back to the bleachers -and missing more flies...
...suites the first day. But buyers did not think the seller's market in furniture would last much beyond the year's end. Already there were signs of change. Said Wallace 0. Oilman, general manager of the Merchandise Mart: "There is no longer the hurried mad rush for 'anything...