Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afford to leave Italy's domestic affairs entirely to Italy, the dead, of Anzio give mute testimony. Several million fighting Americans around the world are proof that isolation is not only impractical but impossible. ... It is essential that the Allies make every effort to stabilize a world gone mad with war and hate...
Said insiders, behind their hands: Harry Hopkins was mad because Jimmy Byrnes had not shown him his report before it went to Congress. And Henry Morgenthau was mightily put out because Byrnes had not consulted him on the tax proposals. In retaliation. Jimmy Byrnes's enemies began circulating the story that it was he who had let the famed "Clear it with Sidney" crack leak out during the Presidential campaign. Meanwhile, Sam Rosenman was reportedly sulking in his tent, sorry he ever left his New York judgeship to take up residence in the White House...
...rural newspapers will be in getting communities to "sit" on post-war projects. "For two years after the last war," he explains, "there were plenty of jobs, plenty of money, and things had to be bought at peak prices. Then a depression came." He warns against a similar mad wave of spending following the present...
...sermon, and kissed Catana Pérez). The book ends, 633 pages later, with Pedro's bride being prepared by her mother-in-law for the nuptial bed ("And breasts so haughty! . . . Such a figure, too; skin like marble. ... I don't wonder he's mad about...
...some six weeks he was mad as a hatter and happy as a lark. He saw signs and portents everywhere. When he proclaimed the Second Coming at the World's Fair, he was unsympathetically bundled off to the city hospital for observation, a "purification" he cheerfully endured. Transferred to a state hospital, he was cruelly beaten for a supposed misdemeanor. "After that beating," said Mike, "I was more sane than insane." In a few weeks, without further treatment, he was released...