Word: mads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seen them do in the movies. He knew how to avenge an insult. He went to his father's bureau, climbed up on a chair, took an automatic from the top drawer, shot his sister dead. Said he: "I am sorry, but I was awful mad...
...bleat 2,000 "woollies" as they start forward harried by the sheep-dog at their flanks. A sheepherder, strong in suffering hardship, powerful in emotion, childish in mind, is alone for a whole summer, far in the California mountains with his sheep. He grows wilderness-mad. His only civilized emotion is a strange attachment to his herd. All summer long he makes only three acquaintances?a cougar, a prospector and the prospector's daughter. Successively, in unreasoning passion, he kills the first two and takes the last for his mate. The power of the book, the excuse...
...unpopular among the Italian students; but never was their language in any way discourteous or defamatory. I think, Mr. Editor, that for the sake of sane judgment, which is due to all men, including Mussolini, it would be will for our critic to resort to less ambiguity in his mad search for humor. Peppino Porfilio...
...Latvia parliamentary elections took place amid an orgy of mudslinging, which indignant Latvian conservatives characterized as "almost typically American." Forty-six political parties put 600 candidates in the field. During a mad contest for the 100 vacant parliamentary seats, the art of calumnious oratory was carried to heights seldom or never attained before...
...with Tchaikowski's "1812 Overture," and as the strains of the "Marseillaise" and the Russian National anthem floated out in the final bars -Boom Boom! Boom!-siege guns they sounded-fired back stage and the smoke floated out over the audience. The multi-national multi-national multitude went mad applauding, and, of course, Conductor Sokoloff made a little speech...