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Word: madnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...band of barbed wire beside the electric fence before they were shot or died of burns. So awful was their agony that they paid scant attention to the angry prongs of barbed wire and wiggled under even though it ripped their flesh to ribbons. A handful, protected by the mad confusion, succeeded in getting over the fence, hastily stripped off their burning clothes, and started running eastward across the flat plowed field. On the other side of the field was a tank also retreating eastward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Erla | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

...circus has wonderfully gaudy costumes, good-looking girls, emerald-green tanbark, a special and sumptuous Alice in Wonderland pageant. To Deems Taylor music (some of it from his well-known Through the Looking Glass suite) the Jabberwock, the Oysters, the Walrus, a bright-colored set of Chessmen, a decidedly Mad Hatter, a head-slicing Queen of Hearts swagger, slither and galumph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Signs of Spring | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

...want to go among mad People," Alice remarked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Eccentric | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

...help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Eccentric | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

...know I'm mad?" said Alice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Eccentric | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

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