Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There's nothing like a watch on Friday night to get one in the mood for a Saturday night date. Jim "the mad dog" Madison has found a new buddy--with a Southern accent, too--The Count De Wright. The Count will be remembered for his sagacious comments in Statistics...
...Called his first post-election Cabinet meeting. As reported by ubiquitous Columnist Drew Pearson, Roosevelt said to his Cabinet: "In 30 years of political life, I have never seen such a dirty, unfair, below-the-belt campaign. During the last two weeks I got mad. And I stayed mad...
...Here, when Paris was liberated, the whole town went mad, and everyone went around shouting 'Long live Liberty, Democracy and the Allies!' About 500,000 people concentrated in Plaza Francia. . . . The Government, of course, tried by force to stop all this, but they were unsuccessful...
Newman sent his book to George Bernard Shaw, got back this comment: "It would have driven me mad; and I am not sure that the author came out of it without a slight derangement...
Last week, the War Production Board got sizzling mad at Marshall Field's New-Dealing Chicago Sun, which campaigned hotly for the fourth term. Grated WPB: "During the second quarter of 1944, the Chicago Sun used or caused to be used 886.89 tons of print paper in excess of the quota. . . . The violations were willful. This excessive use of paper . . . has hampered and impeded the war effort of the United States of America...