Word: maniac
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...case. Every where you will find people who obey the law and sing the "Star Spangled Banner, Justly, and call themselves good citizens. But suggest to them that they should vote or hold public office, and they would consider it preposterous. Such men are political sackers, they are a maniac to democracy...
Lord Curzon, 39 years of age, says the reason he appears to be a speed maniac is because when other people are caught their chauffeurs get the blame; he drives his own car. He is also captain of the House of Commons Cricket Team...
...thief, thought to be a religious maniac, entered the little 13th Century Church of St. Nicholas des Champs, Paris, and departed with a bone, formerly the intrinsic property of St. Martin, which had been preserved there ever since La Chapelle de St. Martin was demolished to make way for the Library of the Arts and Crafts Museum. Consternation reigned among the congregation when the news of the missing bone was given...
...last-named play. Everyone shudders at a man who can make his pulse stop beating at will or who goes into a murderous fit at the sight of a pair of fire-tongs or can conceive and carry out such a devilish scheme of vengeance as this neo-maniac in "It is the Law". Mr. Hohi fills the part well; it is he who makes the play...
There exists in this country today a widespread conspiracy against relaxation. A man goes it as hard as he can in his office, and then rushes away and hits it up like a maniac on the golf course, or plays tennis or squash, or handball, or medicine ball until he boils in every pore. . . . Nobody want to relax; nobody wants to ruminate, or drowse, or dream. We cultivate business on the golf course, solicit orders on furious motor drives on State highways, and go through violent motions in the unspeakable gymnasium because we don't know how to sit. . . . Unless...