Word: mads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although whatever fame he has attained is due to the modern demand for tabulated materialism, Roger W. Babson statistical expert, does not hesitate to condemn the increasing prostitution of school and church by the mechanics of commercial success. "The educational institutions of the country have gone materially mad and our churches are equally guilty," is the dictum of the mathematical prophet. And by educational institutions he means both the elementary schools and the universities. "Our colleges are diploma factories for department stores, giving away anything wanted, irrespective of whether it makes for happiness or discontent." The old problem of serving...
Lynn on a Saturday afternoon, when Mrs. Daugherty is in the Hub buying lineoleum for the kitchen floor, and diapers for the kid, or Harvard on a Saturday afternoon, when the town goes mad, and forgets lineoleum and diapers, and even the sun is in league with the newspapers at it sets in fiery crimson behind Soldiers Field: is there any choice...
...started at a sound so strange, long drawn and musically wild and unearthly, that . . . I stood gazing up at the clouds whence that voice dropped like a wing. High aloft in the crosstrees was that mad Gay-Header, Tashtego. His body was reaching eagerly forward, his hand stretched out like a wand, and at brief sudden intervals he continued his cries. To be sure the same sound was that very moment perhaps being heard all over the seas, from hundreds of whalemen's lookouts, perched as high in the air; but from few of those lungs could that accustomed...
Theodore Dreiser, novelist: "Returned from England last week, I said to newsgatherers: 'I refuse even to pass the time of day.' Then I changed my mind. Said I: 'England is America-mad. The English girl imitates the American girl . . . the English boy plans to go to America . . . forgetting their own very real superiorities. . . . America is curiously indifferent to its fate. None of our newspapers has the courage to discuss . . . the Catholic question, the Negro question, the money-power question or even the liquor question. But wait until population increases to the bare subsistence level. Then America will...
...Opening than will be "The Mad in his Sun", Stirrings Laura La Planet and Pat O'Malley...