Word: mads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three days he was wracked, wrecked, frantic with insidious syncopation. Not until he repeated the verses to a friend was he released from torture. The friend learned the jingles quickly, eagerly?and went quite as mad as Mark Twain had been...
...bright skies pearl-coloured clouds float through the emerald space, While on the shore the wavelets Lightly take hands, rise and subside, dance like enamoured naiads. Into such a scene on the last day of May roared the poet in his speed boat. Like a mad modernist, scoffing at his own lyrics, Gabriele d'Annunzio disturbed the waters of Lake Garda (in the Italian lake district), annoyed ladies and gentlemen lolling in boats covered with bright awnings. He detests fat people and, what is more, he was out to add another title-speed-boat king-to his list...
...could best ride the Mediterranean as easily as he has the Adriatic and plant the Italian colors over the forts of Alexandria and perhaps worse yet over the Red Sea towns beside the Suez. The mere conception of such a possibility would be enough to send Winston Churchill stark mad. So England is taking every step toward making Egypt a safe and strong imperial second line of defense...
Last week "Rightful King" Rupprecht, a Wittlesbach not descended in the "mad" line, must have known not only that the demonstrations in his favor can scarcely culminate in setting him on his father's throne, but also that the demonstrations might never have occurred had not the onetime Wittlesbachs been kings so unforgettably picturesque...
...Gentlemen, only the other day a great Berlin parade of spiked helmets occurred. There were 120,000. This is of mediocre interest for us, but one of the posters they carried bore the following inscription: 'From Trieste to Riga.' It is mad, paradoxical, grotesque, but it is a fact. Therefore the precise, fundamental duty of Fascist Italy is to reach a maximum strength with her armed forces on land, sea and air [repeated, prolonged applause...