Word: mads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attitude. Its March 2 issue (3,050,000 copies, to be read by perhaps 15,000,000 U. S. men, women and children) contained a veiled rebuke for female failure to use contraceptives. The rebuke consisted of a cartoon by Donald McKee, captioned "Why the March Hare Was Mad." It depicted a buck hare hopping furiously beside a huge bed on whose three pillows lay an abashed, puzzled doe hare with nine newborn.* Harold the buck hare: "Again? What's the idea? Did you never hear of Birth Control...
...that always goes on, while civilization advances only in waves, and when it reaches a certain point, it collapses of its own weight. This has happened before in history, time and again, and it is this that will happen to us, only too soon. If we keep up this mad struggle for cheap luxury and entertainment, which leaves us no time to think or to improve ourselves mentally...
...seems highly unfortunate that the culmination of 20 years of experience and work in photography, lighting, acting, and all the other component parts of good moving pictures, should have to be subordinated to poor directing and a worse scenario as they are in "Stark Mad", the current attraction at the Metropolitan, in order that we may hear as well...
Detectives from Scotland Yard being perennial favorites, Author George Dilnot catalogs their technique; and includes, gratuitously, a murder, escape, poison, embezzlement, beautiful heroine, mad villain ?all in The Black Ace (Houghton-Mifflin...
...minions are not wholly occupied by Mr. Geddes' public projects. They also help him to make games. For in esoteric circles gamester Geddes is acclaimed Manhattan's greatest. Auction bridge and poker are dismal to him, and so, with the fervor and precision of a half-mad mathematician, he creates games colossal in scale, appalling in complexity...