Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Carnival Week, as in any week, the most spectacular figure in Memphis was still 71-year-old Mister Crump. When he passed, in a gleaming new Chrysler, sidewalk idlers gawked as if they had spied the Mad Mullah of Tud, nose ring and all, cracking pecans on the Hope Diamond. Ed Crump did not ignore them. As he rode on casual journeys through his domain he watched the pavements as sharply as a kingfisher hunting shiners; his pink face lighted at the first sign of recognition. If people turned, he snatched a wide-brimmed grey hat from his ear-long...
Everything in Sardinia tasted of locust. A sickly, bitterish flavor permeated milk, cheese and beef from cattle that had crunched the pests with their fodder. (Last year several peasants, after losing their crops, then tasting locust for weeks, went mad...
...damn mad, as one of those people, to hear that accusation over & over again even if you include the Administration and the press in the indictment this time...
...figured every angle-nothing sudden to make the nation mad; the strike, as usual, to come in April when householders would not feel the pinch; no defiant demands (yet); a cause calculated to arouse some sympathy. Everyone knew that a miner's life was a wretched one, although John Lewis had never before made a fighting issue of welfare programs...
...Paul Webb's mountaineer cartoons, and offend those who think such caricature as insulting as the hush-mah-mouf kind of comic contempt for Negroes. All the Cats Join In is a jukebox setting of Benny Goodman's record, in which orgiastic hepcats and bobby-soxers, mad on chocolate malteds, tear all over the place, paced and sustained by the sketching of a deft, rapid pencil. It will satisfy the young and the benign, sicken those who suspect "healthy" tributes to button-eyed innocence...