Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cecil John Rhodes believed in a master race. He got mad whenever he thought about how pudding-headed George III and his pig-headed advisers had split that race. The money Rhodes made digging diamonds and empire-building in South Africa he left for Oxford-to unite Britain and the U.S. (Germany was added, as an afterthought) as the leaders of a world at peace. He thought Rhodes scholarships would turn the trick in a century...
...Goncourt Prize novel, Remorques (published in the U.S. as Salvage-TIME, Jan. n, 1937), is lacking in what the U.S. trade likes to call "big story values." Nothing much happens. Tugboat Captain Gabin, married for ten years to a nice, affectionate little blonde, suddenly finds that he's mad about Mile. Morgan. Except for a few convincing details, that's practically the whole plot...
...White House, Harry Truman let it be known that he had tried to dissuade Jackson from his unprecedented action, but had failed. The President was hopping mad. For in the long run, even though he had appointed neither Jackson nor Black, Harry Truman's administration, as the inheritor of the New Deal, would get most of the blame for the unseemly judicial scandal...
...wings. Another sideliner, Poet Lionel Stander, grates out Mr. Hecht's own highly debatable views on Love & Art, and dashes an occasional gruelly tear from his granitic eye. To climax a triumphant tour, the dancer's mind finally cracks and he turns his own (and mad Dancer Vaslav Nijinsky's) great role, Le Spectre de la Rose, into a dance of death...
...attempt to measure the avalanche with a rain-gauge. For five years the consumer has been starved for goods, and has amassed an unprecedented total of liquid wherewithal. Pre-war production is not enough to fill the need; lifting the ceiling when it is attained will cause a mad spree of competitive bidding for scarce items...