Word: mads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...point of wildest merriment in the Scandals is reached when the comedian's right buttock absorbs several inches of bayonet wielded by a jealous Romeo. A moment later the balcony collapses, Juliet and all. The house goes mad...
Andrew Kan, Chinese merchant of Seattle, recently returned from the great oriental Republic, says the world has gone " Mah Jongg mad." Mr. Kan should know. He went to China to place orders for a half a million sets, but was only able to obtain a fraction of that number, owing to the enormous demand. The price of the game has been increased 100% during the past few months, and Mr. Kan thinks that the price will continue on its upward flight until the American public stops buying, " then the supply will equalize the demand...
...chancel and seven chapels were dedicated. In 1911-14 the foundations of the tremendous nave were laid, reminding one of the appeal of the Roman Catholic Cardinal to the mediaeval churchmen of Seville: " Let us lay here the foundations of such a cathedral that men will say we were mad ever to have attempted it." Ten years of inaction have followed, and the foundations have been tantalizingly vacant. Upon his induction to office, Bishop Manning declared that it would be preposterous to think that the New York which could raise a dozen colossal skyscrapers could or would not erect...
Further chapter headings and illustration captions tell the story. Her Hero of the Train, This Young Lady Is Innocent, Was She Safe?, Floyd's Stricken Eyes Stopped Her Mad Fury, The Stockholders' Meeting, My Father's Daughter, Hurrah for Myra!, Spies, Fair Means or Foul, and then, at the last, "in that brilliantly gold, blue and white symphony of decoration which was the music room of the Hamilton home. "'Will you marry me?' asked Floyd, eagerly...
...Marquis Curzon: "In a speech in London I denounced the modern craze for digging up skulls and bones and declared that the antiquaries had gone mad. I protested especially against the excavation of a church yard at Gravesend where ' a lot of ghouls' are trying to find the body of Pocahontas, supposedly buried there...