Word: maniac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subjects that Adolf Hitler skipped in this week's speech to the Reichstag. He did not skip the cold Russian winter, and underlined the fact that the thermometer had dropped to 62° F below. He got in the "archcapitalist" British, the "scoundrel" Jews, the "criminal" Churchill, the "maniac" Roosevelt, the "heroic" Japanese, and the Almighty, of whom he asked "nothing more . . . than that He should bless us in the future as He has done in the past...
This is a time for excitement and anti-Nazi feeling, but not for blind fury and useless foaming at the mouth. We must accept the ship sinkings not as the murders of a maniac but as logical moves in the game of war. We must use them as evidence in proving to Congress that the Neutrality Bill must be repealed, but we must use them for their true witness value, not for the emotion of hatred which they arouse...
...Premier Shefket Verlaci, a 19-year-old Greek named Vasil Laci Mihailoff fired four wild pistol shots at the King's car. On Mihailoff's person the police later found "futuristic poems" dealing with "love and hatred among farm animals." The Italians promptly dubbed Mihailoff a "poetic maniac" and further claimed that his target had been not the King, but Premier Verlaci...
Hanging directly opposite the Matisse works are selected lithographs from a series entitled "Elles," by the deformed little maniac, Toulouse" Lautree. In many instances, the artist acknowledges his debt to Degas, with whom he spent much time as a student and from whom he continually borrowed methods of technique and presentation and adapted them to suit his own purposes. Toulouse-Lautrec, in his own right, was a genuine artist, one who delved deeply into the earthy, sometimes sordid aspects of life. His brush was strong, his eye was piercing, and in all of his work a sharp feeling of cynicism...
...village dancers with red roses in their hair. When an amused Spanish governor told him he could live in the huge old Moorish palace of the Alhambra, Irving was delighted. He moved in and stayed, imagining the heroic past and only slightly disconcerted by the howls of a maniac who was confined beneath the palace...