Word: mads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recorded that a specialist at one of the great Army hospitals once told Queen Mary of a man whose face was entirely disfigured, and who in consequence had brooded until he was almost mad. If Her Majesty would sit and talk with the wounded man, concealing her repugnance, perhaps he would believe his disfigurement bearable, would cease to brood into madness...
...Quincy, Mass., last week, one Benjamin F. Earl, argued that to inject anti-rabies serum into dogs was cruel and needless because, he believed, there was no such disease as rabies. Dogs clubbed to death or shot as "mad" suffered only from distemper or a similar relatively mild disease. To establish his belief he offered to let any rabid dog bite him. No rabid dog was handy; no experimenter callous enough to jeopardize Theorist Earl's life...
...reported a host of new applicants who wanted to be taught the art of flying. Barnstorming pilots noted a significant increase in the number of people who were willing to pay $3 and $5 for a few minutes' ride. One editorial writer said: "America is flying mad...
...impossible that such a journey would remain a pleasure jaunt as well as a pilgrimage for more than 600 pages. That such is the case is due to the fact that Author Lowes is a scholar and an artist, as well as a keen literary detective. All the mad metaphors, the wild and cloudy symbols of two great poems are traced back through Coleridge's labyrinthine mind to the illuminating confusion of an almost illegible scrapbook. The caverns measureless to man are charted and fingerposted. The sun rises on dark castles and the sunless...
...Missing Link (Syd Chaplin). Akka, agreeable chimpanzee, makes merry in this mad jungle frolic. Funnyman Syd Chaplin plays an animal-timorous poet-stowaway who is forced to impersonate a big-game Nimrod in the search for the missing link...