Word: mads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...land; today, hounded; a broken old man; his life spent; his best friend, the President, dead; his close friend Jess Smith, gone, a suicide ; his wife gone; his political career over. He went to the 'shack,' and those whom the gods would destroy they first make mad. So this lonesome old man, alone with those records, destroyed them...
...voice smacked somewhat of the wilderness, but the total effect was unconvincing. The part requires too long a performance of sustained excellence. Miss Francesca Braggiotti, to come to the more important matter of Salome and the Seven Veils, was not quite all we dropped for from that mad, bad daughter of Herodias. To give credit where credit is due, her dancing far surpassed her acting, although in a fury--which seems to have been Salome's favorite mood--she was as sibilant as a cage full of pythons...
...Rings some wrestle till they're mad outright...
When Madame Sutter arrived, Sutter's gold had wiped out New Helvetia. She died of heart failure on the spot, lucky woman. The world, quite mad, had overrun the Sacramento Valley, tearing open its hills for gold, silver, platinum. Sutter's men deserted to wash gravel. His herds died, unmilked. His barns fell. His crops wasted. All his fat lands were squatted on, his fort occupied, by hordes of gold-mad grabbers who had shouted his name from the Mediterranean, across Panama, up to the Golden Gate; from Siberia, Japan, Russia, Sweden, up to the Golden Gate. Gunboats...
...stuck like icicles in every corner; the Captain's descriptions, indeed, had been enthusiastic, and Abie Bromfield, who drove the Captain's dog team, evinced a polite interest in the marvels that were told him. The other natives of the expedition. believed that the Captain was either mad or lying, but he, Abie Bromfield, understood things. "By jingo," he said politely, puffing a mouthful of smoke at the arctic moon...