Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...consumers would stop their mad rush to buy clothing and wait until midsummer, they might save themselves close to a billion dollars a year. Reason: prices will be lower. Last week, WPB and OPA finally decided to snap a checkrein on runaway textile prices. Shoppers agreed that it was high time. Since 1939 the volume of woven fabrics available to civilians had decreased 20%, but the nation's clothing bill had zoomed skyward from 1939's $5.8 billion to $11.4 billion last year...
They have the young girls going mad...
...psychological complement of another good Broadway-derived melodrama, Tomorrow the World (TIME, Jan. 15), in which a little boy from Hitler's Germany tries to tear an American household apart. The heroine of Guest in the House is quite unpolitical, but she is a spiritual Nazi - a power-mad, not unfamiliar feminine type for whom psychiatrists could supply accurate names...
When at last Aunt Martha (Aline MacMahon) fixes everything up by torturing a key nerve of Evelyn's psychosis-a terror of birds-and driving her stark mad, the effect is heavily overmelodramatic. Up to then, Guest in the House is a sharp and scary if never definitive study of the tyranny of weakness, and of the sinister conflicts and confusions which it can inspire among the relatively strong...
...Russian Ambassador's mood was almost as black as caviar. As for U.S. Ambassador George S. Messersmith, it was doubtful whether he had had any idea, when he accepted Constantine Oumansky's invitation, that their lunch would be so dramatic. The Soviet Ambassador was hopping mad. He resented recent articles in the U.S. press which represented Russia's Mexico City Embassy as headquarters for an army of Soviet agents flitting around Latin America...