Word: breakdowns
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...keep their scholastic average up to the minimum level required of scholarships, are deprived of this assistance and forced to abandon, for a time at least, their scholarly careers. Some keep their studies above the minimum level only at a strain that overtaxes their strength and leads to a breakdown. Whatever advantages this stern regime may have for some young men of exceptional endurance, it involves in many other cases much social waste...
...causes, such as the tendency to remember only the pleasant things, and to forget or gloss over the more horrible aspects of war. Further developing this psychological thesis, he said that when attempting to outlaw war, attractions such as escape from domestic and financial difficulties at home, and the breakdown of social conventions should be taken into account...
...with influenza and nervous breakdown, irrational, almost penniless, sued for back alimony by Natalie Talmadge Keaton, recently divorced by Mae Elizabeth Scribbens Keaton, long-faced Funnyman Joseph Francis ("Buster") Keaton was bundled off in a straitjacket to the psychopathic ward of a Sawtelle, Calif., hospital...
...hoped one day to see published. Some weeks Artist Beale, in humorous vein, would confect such a series as The First Auto (see cut), in which a swank couple in duster and goggles buy a two-cylinder Pope-Hartford, take to the open road, encounter a thunderstorm, suffer a breakdown (which they attempt to mend with a gimlet and a hatchet), and finally drive on into a sentimental rainbow. More rough & tumble were Beale's ideas of Mrs. Casey's goat which butted a respectable Philadelphian into a watering trough or Uncle Rastus and His Mule. Literature particularly...
Since Lotte Feingraeber is Polish, she ducked down a side street, eluded German frontier guards, slipped into Poland. Clawing at her tar-covered skin, she was placed in a hospital at Churcuv "suffering from nervous breakdown." Aroused, the Swiss President of the Upper Silesian Mixed Commission for Protection of National Minorities, M. Felix Calender, demanded without result last week that the German Government punish the Storm Troopers who tarred Lotte Feingraeber. The tar having been peeled off her and soothing lotions applied, she said with returning composure: "I shall demand 50,000 marks [$20,000] from the German authorities...