Word: madnesses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ceilings) was even more lively than usual. By week's end, all grain prices were up to their new ceilings at Chicago and the luckless "shorts" stood to lose their shirts. The Cargill suit was still pending. Robert Buckley (suspended from trading on a technicality) was still fighting mad and might go to court again. Nobody was selling confusion short...
Little businessmen along George P. McNear Jr.'s Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad were tired of the four-month strike on the road which had kept them from shipping grain, coal and steel. They were also mad enough four months later to do something about it. Nineteen shippers made up a $10,000 pool, used it to hire a smart lawyer. He went into Federal Court with a novel plea: the T. P. & W. (though highly solvent), was "physically bankrupt," so a receiver should be appointed to run the trains...
...mansion littered with terriers, halberds, "penholders made of tigers' teeth," a dusty collection of rare minerals, pet dormice, horses, French governesses, peasants and pheasants. Winter & summer, day began at 5 a.m., when Lord Alconleigh greeted the dawn with one his favorite records (Drake Is Sailing West, Lads, the "mad" scene from Lucia, or Lo, Here the Gentle Lark, sung by Galli-Curci), and strode on to the lawn cracking a Canadian stock whip. After breakfast, he gave his daughters a brief head start, then hunted them crosscountry with four bloodhounds...
Eerie. In Manila, Cart Driver Alejandro Salazar complained that a G.I. passenger got mad about something or other...
...days of the Depression, when even Hollywood wasn't able to afford high priced films, the Marx Brothers were merely set in front of a rolling camera and untied. The result was a mad sweep stake through the Celluloid, with no handicaps. In comparison, the inflationary "A Night in Casablanca" turns out to be nothing more than a potato sack relay at a Yosian picnic...