Word: mads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thieves, beggars, lunatics, gutter-rats, detesting a deity whose magnificence had seemed an insult added to the injury of their creation, were not averse to a more probable image of their maker. Thus the mad leper sat in Koili-kuntla while thugs prowled about the streets to procure him food and apparel. After two of these thugs robbed and battered a citizen, the police arrested them. Then, kindled with the desire to assert his divinity, surrounded by his riff-raff apostles, the mad leper went last week to storm the jail. Bullets, he said, would fall from him as softly...
...Hiram. For some reason Hiram's wife, Rebecca, believes in life-weary Edsel as the ambassador of a richer existence. After the bucolic Hiram has fled his shame, she stays on until Joe, cowshed philosopher, reminds her to leave for greater conquests. Gene Riminy, wastrel squire, and his mad, illegitimate Yolande furnish further confusion to a fantasy in embarrassingly amateurish water colors...
...Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania calls her grandson, the King, "Mad Mickey" because of his "mischievous, impulsive nature...
Hangars, houses and steeples cance." "quietly The dropped into Super-Reporter insignifigance "above the foam of thickening clouds ... in the boiling fog which lay between us and the civil war . . . through the strange sky, in sane with sunset," to Bratislava. There, "everything was mad." The Super-Reporter's workaday comrades miraculously procured auto dark." mobiles in "that madness in the dark...
...urchin and a policeman in comic argument. He noted "sombre men with the blessed Red Cross on their arms," with stretchers ready for emergencies, which soon arose. "A youth of fine features and clear eyes" went suddenly mad, presumably with grief. "He bellowed horribly. He stretched his hands like the claws of a leopard and leaped upon one of the guards, screaming." They carried him off. The crowd followed the coffins...