Word: mads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great English public is tremendously worked up over the character of fifteen year old boys. The headmaster of Eton has stated in print that "It is only known to schoolmasters, and not to all of them, how large a proportion of boys are a little mad between the ages of 14 and 17. Weird fancies, always egotistic, suspiciousness, moroseness, solitariness, all these are common, but they present most diverse appearances to the observer. Among the rougher boys arson is not infrequent and kleptomania is fairly rampant with all classes." Frankly, the British public doesn't believe...
...Prince d'Aquitaine a la tour abolie These fragments I have shored against my ruins Why then He fit you. Hieronymo's mad againe...
...latest discovery, and profit by it. The next of the Wild West Shows that tour Europe can carry the message of International Prohibition. Peggy O'Neil's next London-and-Paris appearance should be used to spread the gospel of Monroe. And when Henry Ford again visits a war-mad Europe, his mission should include not Jane Addams and David Starr Jordan, but Maude Adams, Frances Starr, and Al Jolson. The true purpose of art has been revealed...
...justice of the Greek executions. Should it not take at least a study of the organization of the Court which tried the case and a study of the official report of the proceedings before we reach the conclusion that "their death was brought about by a mad, mistaken patriotism on the part of a people gone hysterical"? Is it not a cardinal prerequisite for any sort of constructive thinking to ascertain the facts and not reach a decision before that has been accomplished? It is easy of course to pronounce our ex cathedra judgments in a case...
...hard to determine where negligence and foolishness stop, and where treason begins: In Greece the men executed may or may not have been guilty of real treason; their death was brought about by mad, mistaken patriotism on the part of a people gone hysterical. What of Illinois? There too, it can be said with good reason that the charges against the millionaire radical and his associates were due in part to national war hysteria...