Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wile, able Washington correspondent for many newspapers, had from Mr. Daugherty the secret of his physical " comeback " after a breakdown which was aggravated seriously by the death of Mr. Harding...
...Eternal Three. A saintly doctor (Hobart Bosworth), who believes in doing good to everybody no matter how they feel it, acquires first a nervous breakdown and then, while recuperating, a young and comely bride (Claire Windsor). But when the medico returns to his work, the bride is sort of neglected-and turns, as subtitles say, to the doctor's scamp of an adopted son for light amusement: It is not difficult to guess what happens next and whether the picture ends happily...
Commission that no payments would be received from Germany until the economic and financial horizon had cleared. This is in pursuance of Stresemann's policy of preventing "the complete breakdown of the German economic and financial system...
Added to these incentives are are the discontent of returned colored troops with traditional living conditions south of the Mason-Dixon line, the breakdown of the contract labor system, recent crop failures and general agricultural bankruptcy among Southern planters. " The wonder is," remarks The New York Globe, " that the Negro did not walk out long...
...patients to assimilate a more normal diet. Announcement has just been made of the "cure" of an apparently hopeless case of diabetes. A New York mathematics teacher and former athlete, Joseph Corbett, became ill in 1917, grew progressively worse, was pronounced incurable by physicians, and last October, after a breakdown, lingered on a starvation diet, too weak to turn in bed. His wife had bought a cemetery plot for him. He began a regular dosage of insulin on February 2. The 9% sugar in his blood has now been reduced to normal, less than 1%, he has gained 50 pounds...