Word: madcap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...patron at the Party Congress two years ago, seized the Presidency of the Radical Socialists for himself. After all there are some 20 party groups in France. Outside his own Edouard Daladier remained only a vaguely familiar name-until last week. Then his number turned up on the madcap, illogical roulette wheel of French politics. He was called to form a Cabinet for France...
...tossed in blankets, dumped into ponds out of laundry baskets. Before that she took child roles with Selig. From Pathe she graduated to wearing silver wigs in Cecil B. De Mille's period pictures. Lately, in her 40th to 49th pictures inclusive, she has been uniformily a slightly madcap but inherently sensible heroine whose activities whether in college (The Campus Flirt), a newspaper office (Hot News), a bathing suit (Swim, Girl, Swim, The Palm Beach Girl), or more esoteric backgrounds (A Kiss in a Taxi, Lovers in Quarantine, Senorita), embodied a gaiety only faintly flavored with sentiment. Bebe Daniels...
...Madcap though he may have seemed, Bennett made the Herald thrive. In the '70s and early '80s, it had the best staff of reporters and editors in the U. S. Mark Twain and Walt Whitman wrote for it. The decline of the Herald began when the late Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst entered the New York field as competitors, with the World and the American, respectively...
...cess Helen] and me that Mihai can be very absent-minded about remembering to do as he is told. But what normal child is not? . . . "Some of the American rotogravures, I believe, have printed pictures of my grandson with the statement that my pet name for him is 'Madcap Mihai' or even 'Mad Mihai'! I have never called my grandson by any such names." Observers recalled that the "sinister efforts" of partisans of the abdicated Crown Prince Carol to discredit his son, King Mihai, achieved such success, last year, that several worried Rumanian aristocrats hurried...
...established authority, the Bible, it is impossible for a man to add a cubit to his stature by taking thought, but it does not say anything about detracting a cubit or even more from a woman's girth by the same process. In this respect Mitzi, star of "The Madcap" now playing at the Shubert Theatre goes the Good Book one better, for she gives a formula for taking off weight which consists mostly of taking thought...