Word: mads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Beginning at the fifth hole of their first round, Golfer Gunn went stark, staring golf-mad, made six birdies, used only nine putts on seven consecutive holes-putts varying between 35 and 12 feet-sunk with a borrowed putter. His score for the first 18 holes was 69, breaking the course record by two strokes. After that it was only a matter of time before Mr. Gunn won match and championship...
...where he had helped take the scalp of the Yale crew. Young Mr. Clark, himself no mean polo player, seemed to inspire hitherto hidden skill in his teammates, particularly in Messrs. Cotton and White. And so, Harvard took the lead and might have won the game-except for the mad riding of tall, angular Winston F. C. Guest, who made seven of Yale's eight goals. The final score: Yale 8, Harvard 5. Yale won the championship, chiefly because Mr. Guest had played polo that was fast and sportingly rough enough for international cup matches...
Twenty-two red legs carrying eleven redskins were throbbing over the 480-mile Redwood Highway between San Francisco and Grant's Pass, Ore. The red lips of Miss Redwood Empire, "little fawn" of the Hopi Indians, greeted John Mad Bull of the Karook tribe when he staggered across the finish line last week-the winner of the marathon. He had covered the 480 miles (longest footrace ever held in the U. S.) in 7 days, 12 hours, 34 minutes. He was rewarded with a $1,000 prize, to which he added $50 to purchase an automobile...
...quite as mad as Mark Twain over the "Punch, brothers! Punch with care!" jingle in your story about the Twentieth Century Limited, but I was sorry that you did not mention other famous American trains. Certainly the Broadway Limited of the Pennsylvania R. R. which runs between New York and Chicago in 20 hours, the magnificent trains of the Santa Fe which daily swoop across the deserts, and the many luxurious trains which speed from New York and Chicago to Florida and New Orleans deserved a mention in your story...
...mortal while reserving immortality for themselves. If they can look down upon me and laugh at my helplessness, I will show them that I, too, can laugh at myself. For together with my mortality, they have also given me a sense of humor. Otherwise I should have gone mad." Having read this and similar passages, the reader also is pleased that he has a sense of humor, for many are the possibilities of his going mad while reading the volume...