Word: mads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alban Mountains, 300 feet beneath the placid waves of the Lago di Nemi,* there are known to rest two gorgeous pleasure barges built for the mad Emperor Caligula, loaded with many of his treasures and sunk inexplicably in this volcanic lake. Last week Premier Mussolini ordered the Ministry of Public Instruction to take steps for the recovery of these galleys. Experts opined that the only feasible method will be to tunnel into the side of the extinct volcano of which the Lago di Nemi is the crater, and thus drain off the deep water which thwarted two previous attempts...
...country is mad over these musical shows, but this state of theatrical affairs will not last very long. As is the case after every emotional wave, the public turns its thoughts to more sedate things, to things which are conservative...
...unlike the publicity-mad deities apotheosized nowadays by ogling mayors at all-American beauty contests, Miss Anna Willess Williams sought to keep it a secret when she posed for Engraver George Morgan and let him affix her profile as Goddess of Liberty to the silver dollars issued by the U.S. Mint at Philadelphia in 1878. In 1880 a newspaper man divulged her secret and she was flooded with offers to exploit her beauty-fair complexion, blue eyes, Grecian nose and crown of soft-spun golden hair-on the stage. She refused, staying on as principal of a house-of-refuge...
...heart fills with joy. I am positively mad when I see the splendors of this great province of the Italian nation...
...Duce deigned to chat often and familiarly with correspondents, to whom he usually accords scant courtesy. They, unmollified, reported unkindly that he seemed to want very much to rub the tip of his nose, now healing under a brown coat of iodine from the wound inflicted by a mad Irishwoman (TIME, April 12). The correspondents reported that, as often as Signor Mussolini's finger drew unconsciously near the afflicted organ, his iron will caused him to drop his hand-no mean feat, as all whose noses have itched can testify...