Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gogh, he learned something about translating sunlight into arbitrary colors (chrome yellow, red-violet). Said he in his journal: "Though the public had no suspicion of it, two men were performing there a colossal work that was useful to them both." The work ended when Van Gogh went mad, chased Gauguin down the street with a razor, then went home and sliced...
...season, grossing 210,000 francs ($1,763) a performance-a terrific take for present-day Paris. Entire families, from grand' mère down to ten-year-old Gabrielle, were trooping to see the show. They were seeing a spirited, shined-up Nanette. The Charleston-mad flapper of the '20s had become a Gallic jitterbug. In an atmosphere of glittering color and gorgeous chorines, Nanette (Claudine Cereda) writhed to boogie-woogie arrangements of Vincent Youmans' (see MILESTONES) I Want to Be Happy and crooned...
Three years ago, almost to the day, Vag thought, as he walked slowly through the Yard on his way to Widener. In the mad scramble of that other spring, selling books and furniture, bidding friends goodbye, getting credit for courses unfinished, he had hardly had time to think about when he would be coming back. And now the war which had been the most absorbing experience of his life seemed vague and far away, like a well-remembered dream...
...Mad, uncontrolled laughter ended in a hysterical shriek...
...excitement that surrounds her brother's wedding and her vain attempt to run away from home-merely marks the dividing line between awkward F. Jasmine Addams, Esq., and the poised young high-school student named Frances Addams, who smiles condescendingly at old Berenice, and murmurs: "I am just mad about Michelangelo...