Word: mads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...money long ago lost interest for him. The acquiring of a reputation as a useful public servant does interest him a lot. Public service of some sort is all that is left to a man like Mr. Mellon. It may not be true, but it does not make him mad to say he is the 'best Secretary since Alexander Hamilton...
...Fascisti smiled, cheered and clapped .the appreciative Mussolini. Once again rang out the provocative cry: "Long live Communism!" A Fascist became unnerved, sprang into the midst of the 15 Communist Deputies, lashing out with both fists. It was the signal for a free fight and the Chamber became a mad mass of sprawling men, jumbled arms and legs...
That there are men in Harvard who do drink is surely no new or cataclysmic discovery. This fact plus the opinions of Professor Cabot, gained from his investigations, are just the sort of news which the sensation-mad public devours so voraciously in print. Professor Cabot's conclusions, and he himself is the first to admit it, are drawn from answers to questionnaires which record mainly mere student impressions. The lack of accurate statistics is the very thing which is sure to be over-looked in the hourly extras whose headlines, in all probability, will shrill forth the blasting scandal...
...Fencing may hurt the pride, it cannot black the eye. And you can play it with your friends. You box your friend. He hits you on the ear. He says, 'So sorry, I didn't mean--' And you are mad. You say, "Oh, quite all right.' But you hit him on the nose your first chance...
...fencing there is none of that. You see your friend's weakness. You say, 'You will fence with me, Monsieur?' And then he gets a touch, two. Your pride is hurt? Never mind. Tomorrow you can take a lesson. Next day you may beat him. You are not mad: you are not hurt...