Word: manias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Welcome Danger (Paramount). Like all Harold Lloyd's comedies, this is built around a character fundamentally sensible and likable but who seems crazy because of some predominant trait or mania. Botany is the current mania and the character is a police chief's son who, asked to help out on the force because the present captain thinks he might be a chip off the old block, gets interested in fingerprints when he finds that they are like leaves- no two alike. Lloyd took six months making Welcome Danger as a silent film, then made it over again putting...
...November 1928, the government of Vintila Bratianu, last of the Bratianu dictators who have ruled Rumania as a family property for 48 years (TIME, Nov. 19), was overthrown by Dr. Mania's Peasant Party. For months the Bratianus and the remains of their "Liberal" party have chafed, muttered, plotted, as one by one the holders of Bratianu sinecures were dismissed, Bratianu pensions were cancelled, the fleet of Government automobiles, purchased for Bratianu use, was sold...
Nonpartisanship was almost a mania with General Manager Stone. If he had political opinions, no one else in the Associated Press knew them. When his son Herbert went down with the German-torpedoed Lusitania, he insisted on A. P. neutrality...
...less pleasant echo of Wartime days came bellowing last week, from that brilliant yet brittle strategist General Erich von Ludendorff, once famed as the "Brains of Hindenburg." Today Ludendorff appears to be the victim of delusions of persecution and a strange religious mania. The too-brilliant, too-brittle brain has seemingly snapped at last...
...play, and will Yankee slugging break through Cardinal pitching? Such are the questions that will animate barber shop debate, for the next few days and cause thousands of fans to storm the gates, ruin their hats and larynxes and regain their youth in a grand orgy of sport mania...