Word: mads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Erotium, the girl whom Menaechmus prefers to his wife, will be taken by R. W. Hyde '30. Her establishment consists of a cook, F. M. Chambers '30. and a maid, Matthew Hale, Jr. '32. H. C. Friend '31 will play the doctor, who is summoned to treat the supposedly mad Menaechmus...
...simple U. S. garage-owner-how he met Margaret Harting, the daughter of a pacifist lecturer, and loved her. Then duty called. Someone had been assassinated. He returned to Clavery and met (a) the villain, Michael, would-be usurper of the throne, whom he shoots for the mad dog of a militarist he is; (b) Princess Helen of Saevia whom he loves, and marries, without any regrets for the U. S. girl. As a novel, The King Who Was a King is thus unconventional in form. The fact that it is the author's description of a possible film...
...Paris. "You join our party or we will get your two children on May Day!" This threat, whispered by Communists over and over to simple Thomas Testa, Parisian factory worker, so preyed on his mind that last week, mad with fear he rushed into the Metro (subway), dashed through the ticket puncher's wicket, flung himself off the platform before an oncoming train. The cars only took off one of his legs...
...Holiness was preparing to enjoy a carriage ride around the spacious Vatican gardens. An open barouche and a pair of glossy spanking Irish steeds waited at the portico of St. Damasus Courtyard. Suddenly the mettlesome beasts became frightened. They shied, snorted, whinnied, plunged. Finally they "ran away" in a mad dash around the high-walled garden...
...PATHWAY-Henry Williamson- Dutton ($2.50). After the War, William Maddison crept back to his native Devon, to the burrows, the sandhills, the rising and ebbing tides, to starry nights in winter, to summer nights of mad lightning and serene moonlight. At the Manor of Wildernesse he still found Mary, "grave and beautiful and innocent," who loved small birds and high winds as he did himself...