Word: mads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Enchantress ever, the moon has from the first inspired ambiguous conjecture, leaving most men readier to impute to malevolence her obscure government of rhythms in nature than to find benign her whiteness, her remote hauteur. "She is wise," they said, "only to confound; her beauty maketh mad." Yet gardeners, and others whose work is in the earth, have stood to the defense of the cold lady of Heaven. They have declared that seeds sown in the moon's first quarter grow more quickly than those planted in the dark of the moon. They have averred it often, foot...
...jargoning fountains of Italy. That was a mistake. Her next, a number from Dinorah, came more welcomely; it had a thinner flavor. The coldness of her music increased; the warmth of the audience increased commensurably. She sang Bishop's Pretty Mocking Bird, the Polonaise from Mignon. Then the Mad Scene from Luna-flight upon flight of crazy silver bells pealing in a ruined steeple rimed with frost. That cold, brilliant audience rose to her; they clapped and clapped again; they cheered her until her car (which even the gallant 50 could scarce have budged) took her away...
...Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey has a plant at Bayway, N. J. There last week a man suddenly became raving mad. He was taken to a hospital in Manhattan where he soon died. Others became affected. Within a few days, five men, all raving mad and confined in straight-jackets, died. In all there were 45 men-three shifts of 15 each-working together on the same job. All were placed under medical observation and care. Only ten of them were unaffected. The others all showed symptoms of the disease: headaches, nervousness, insomnia, lowered blood pressure. Such...
...Later in the afternoon the same player was put into the scrimmage again. He played like mad. After a dozen plays or so, time out was called and the same player was seen lying injured on the field. The trainer commenced to work over him where he lay. Out rushed...
...three obsessions of "a mad sort of woman...