Word: mads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...line dramatic critics have recently been aghast at the impertinence of the King's Way theatre in London in producing "Hamlet" in modern settings and modern costumes. In this production the melancholy Dane himself wore a well-tailored pair of knickerbockers. Ophelia went raving mad in the old regrettable fashion, even though quite up to date with a boyish bob and scandalously short skirt; and Laertes proved himself an adept at inhaling cigarettes. On the face of it, the play thus produced appeals as a clever burlesque; yet the producers seem to have been quite serious, being convinced that, after...
Every fall now, we as a country, go college-mad. We call it the football craze, but nobody who has the slightest knowledge of mob psychology can underestimate the enormous impetus college wards that the absorption in football is giving the youth of America. It is impossible to think of football without thinking also of college. The two ideas are psychological Siamese twins. And it is impossible not the think of football from the day when the first fall practice beguns until after Thanksgiving, unless one is a mental hermit. The thousands of universities and colleges between the two oceans...
...they are bound, in common sense, to attend classes. What has conduct to do with passing examinations? And what more natural, with a long year of college discipline ahead of them, than for boys who have been grilling through hot summer afternoons to brighten their evenings and weekends with mad pranks? Particularly when some of the boys are rich and spoiled, with a suite at the Taft Hotel, another in New York, and a sleek roadster in the garage; or when they are bumptious zanies anxious to impress the loose-lived upperclassmen with whom they find themselves thrown; or full...
Then the Colonel was called to the stand. Fighting mad, he spoke softly: "I have been on trial, all morning with convicted bootleggers, a quack doctor, a disgruntled ex-road foreman, an ex-ranger with a bad record, and other men with personal grievances testifying against me through the convenient method of leading questions from a man who assembled this group of malcontents. I appreciate the opportunity to make a statement in behalf of the administration of the park...
...lifework behind him, he cabled daily 3,000 words of detailed comment and instruction to the News? received from that journals executives 5,000 words of questions and reports. His wife asked him to learn golf. He tried it, gave it up, said to her, "I can't get mad...