Word: mads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is the title of an article by Mr. G. K. Chesterton in the Century magazine. Mr. Chesterton here discusses the artists of the " newer schools," for whom he sees little hope-unless the rest of the world goes mad as well...
...intellectual capacity. Later observers remarked that the size of the brain had little to do with the volume of the skull, but still the mass of the convolutions was regarded as somehow significant of ability. But the brains of the greatest weight have belonged indiscriminately to scientists and suicides, mad men and bricklayers. And men of superlative genius have done their work with a modicum of tissue that any self-respecting lunatic would disown...
During his recent illness Attorney General Daugherty gave up smoking and he does love his pipe. " I just wanted to see how much of a man I was," he told reporters. "In three weeks I'm going to be strong enough to spit in a mad...
...object of worship; modern pagans like Walt Whitman claim that such an attitude is most natural. At all events, however carefully scientists have recorded facts about the body, when someone claims for it a new and more wonderful function, all known facts are brushed aside in the mad rush of unreasoning worship...
...MAD LOVE-Pola Negri succeeds in occasionally vivifying a typical sirenade of Liane, the toast of the boulevards, whose specialty is driving lover after lover to ruin, death, or the booby-hatch. After tenting on the old vamp ground unrepentantly, through numerous reels, she discovers sin's ultimate wage to be strangulation and is murdered by ex-lover No. 19 in the middle of a carnival. A German film with the usual admirable mass-effects...