Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sure, we are all fighting mad because of the recently unveiled atrocities in Germany. That is to be expected. But in our temporary blind fit of anger let's not take any pseudo-chauvinistic action for which we will be sorry when we-calm down. After all, why make an entire people suffer because of the actions of only a few of its leaders...
...autocrats of the Cocos mint their own bone money (metal coins, they believe, might cause their subjects to become money mad), make and administer their own laws, order executions (by drowning at sea), give each native who marries a house as wedding present. Each king has provided a bronze bust of himself for the royal gallery, each has maintained an unfailing cellar of matured Scotch whiskey in the royal "palace" (a sprawling teak-and-tile mansion...
...Queen Was Off Key. In the present edition of letters (the most complete in 80 years) Felix' frivolity bubbles as brightly as it does in his music. In London the young man of fashion found "Such a whirl! It is mad! I am quite giddy and confused. . . . Lady Morgan was there, and Winterhalter, and Mrs. Jameson, and Duprez, who . . . sang a French romance. . . . Who can count them...
...Hell on the Hudson." West Point rules and traditions struck Plebe Robert Woods like a tidal wave on the morning after his mad dash to get there. Reporting to the cadet adjutant, he got this greeting: "Wipe that smile off, Mr. Dumbjohn, or whatever your name is! Brace up! Suck up your guts! More! Get rid of that gabardine coat! Get those shoulders back! Pull your chin in! Further! Further! Where 're you from? The Navy? What part of the Navy? Oh, Annapolis, eh? . . ." The next few minutes of scorn were enough to wither an asbestos monkey...
...Kenneth Macrae of Stornoway, Hebrides, was boiling mad. Mincing no words, he told the Edinburgh assembly of the fundamentalist Free Church of Scotland (the "Wee Frees") that the church should break relations with the Y.M.C.A. The Y, he had discovered, was condoning modernist doctrines and "worldly amusements," and had put out a scandalous booklet for servicemen. Told in the Huts. Without further ado, the shocked assembly passed the resolution. Next day, it learned that the objectionable booklet was about France and Gallipoli during World War I, and had been out of print for 25 years...