Word: mads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heavy overhanging brows, full mouth, quantities of white hair which was once jet black. His ideas are modern, too modern for some of his followers. Not long ago, he proposed at his own expense to erect a statue to Galileo, famed scientist, equally famed as a heretic. Pisa went mad. Nevertheless, he is extremely popular and is known as the "War Cardinal" because he advocated a fight-to-the-finish policy. He is a great friend of the Royal Family and it is rumored that Premier Mussolini once suggested making him a Senator, an unprecedented occurrence since 1870, which would...
...Gould system started in 1857 with a terrific war of control against E. H. Harrlman. It was the era of mad railroad construction when fortunes awaited the successful builder. Such success was achieved chiefly by ruinous competition; and miles of torn tracks, hundreds of crushed investors, unceasing litigation, hectic legislation, and deserted boom towns marked the Gould-Harriman tornado...
...child, fearing he may not really be her father. The child kills herself. The point of the play is put in the mouth of the old doctor in attendance. Roughly it is this: "Never spoil a human being's illusions about himself or his condition. He will go mad or die." A violent controversy has arisen over the acting of Warburton Gamble in the part of the father of the house. He made him a silly "showoff" type and as such drew a perfect picture. Objectors swear that there was a deeper thrust of idealistic sincerity to the part...
...human . . . who will go mad...
...that, so I looked at him puzzled for a while, then I thought of it. Td rather have pyjamas,' I told him, and he went away." The Irish literary school has its great men: soft-voiced, indefinite Yeats, grandiose and pompous Dunsany, brittle and quarrelsome Shaw, half-mad and experimenting Joyce; but here is a soul that springs from the folkways of the world, to whom all the humdrum affairs of life take on the gold cloaks and the swords of legendry, who sees elves dancing the Woolworth Tower and a mystical little joke making faces from a subway...