Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...containing his picture, from a friend in Sweden. "That is a very excellent magazine," he declared, "and it was a very satisfactory article about me - very satisfactory." Falkenhorst, who said there was never any doubt in his mind that Germany would lose the war under the leadership of that "mad man" Hitler who fought the "most insane" war in all history, said he was relieved of command in Norway on Dec. 18 and a Nazi Party general put in his place. He then went to Prussia, but fled from there to southern Germany to escape the advancing Russians. The inclosed...
...chief character as President Cleveland. Alexander Woollcott boosted a short story about a retiring British schoolteacher called Goodbye, Mr. Chips out of the cloistered covers of the Atlantic Monthly and into the hurly-burly of best-sellerdom by announcing over the radio that it had sent him "quietly mad." But Americans, by & large, have read what they felt like reading, neglected many a worthy or highly touted volume. The only thing that U.S. best-sellers indisputably have in common is sales...
...Time Has Come." "By channels other than the normal ones" (as he put it), Reporter Cortesi sent the Times a boiling hot column-and-a-half dispatch. The Times gave it Page-One, Column-One play: ALL FREEDOM FOUND ENDED IN ARGENTINA. At long last, Cortesi was mad because censors had "mangled" one of his dispatches, and "The time has come to say . . . that things have happened in Buenos Aires recently that exceed anything that this correspondent can remember in his 17 years' experience in Fascist Italy...
...local Jukes family, whose name is Fleagle. While he twitches around among cattle skulls in the uninviting Fleagle living room, and snags his hand in the twanging spring of a devastated sofa, Mamie Fleagle Johnson (Marjorie Main) assassinates flies with a bull whip, and her third husband, a mad scientist (Porter Hall), suggests that perhaps he'd better knock together another coffin...
Other members of the household are the cretinous twins Bert and Mert (Peter Whitney), their loony little sister (Jean Heather) and-thanks to the toxic ministrations of mad-scientist Hall-a phosphorescent Grandma (Mabel Paige). ("I glow, don't I?" she says proudly.) By her light MacMurray reads about granddaughter Bonnie's great bank robbery; as she dies, the old lady bequeaths him the tune and its doubletalked words which-to the proper person-will reveal the hiding place of $70,000 in bank loot. After that things get a little complicated...