Word: maniac
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marries the wrong man first, he contrives to drive into a telegraph pole at the crucial movement, thus leaving the road open to dour Don. In spite of an overdose of Ameche and the triteness of the plot, Buster Keaton and the Cops make it worth dodging through the maniac drivers on Harvard Square...
...everything that has occurred in Europe for a dozen years. On her own staff she wars perpetually with bearded, ancient Georges de la Fouchardiére, L'Oeuvre's political humorist. A witty contemporary once said that Fouchardiére "daily executes on page two the dangerous maniac who operates on page three...
...hrer Hitler was a "cornered maniac," "this monstrous apparition," "that evil man." The Führer and his Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, were "those marvelous twin contortionists" and Dr. Paul Joseph Göebbels and his Ministry for Propaganda and Enlightenment were labeled a "leather-lunged propaganda machine" which indulges in "bloodcurdling threats...
LONDON--First Lord of the Admiralty. Winston Churchill tonight blasted talk of peace and mediation in the European war with a blunt announcement that the Allies will fight until "that cornered maniac," Adolf Hitler, and his Nazi regime are crushed and destroyed...
...interpretation of the charming maniac, Danny, Was breathlessly slow, building up suspense to a horribly incvitable climax. It is a compliment to his ability that, once the climax was reached and passed, the still held the audience's interest through to the final curtain...