Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Weibel hoped that the baby would live, for newborn infants have tremendous vigor. This baby died two hours after delivery. Gossip soon ran through Vienna to the effect that it died because Dr. Weibel had paused for two minutes during the breakdown of the cinema camera. Bureaucrats in the Austrian Ministry of Education heard the talk. The State Secretary, Dr. Pernter, called Dr. Weibei to account. He explained that in eclampsia the child poisons the mother's blood and the mother's blood in turn poisons the child. In this case, said he, "autopsy next day showed conclusively...
...Speaker, there are many reasons why the House and Senate should quickly adjourn this session of the 74th Congress. . . ." Applause. ''More than 20 of our colleagues-26 to be exact-are now either in hospitals or at their homes suffering from heart trouble or a nervous breakdown.* This Congress has worked long and faithfully and well, and, personally, I insist that the Senate bring its business quickly to an end. . . ." More applause. "In my opinion it will be welcomed by the great majority of the people in the whole country. This share-the-wealth, soak-the-rich...
...topheavy theatre chain. When Fox was ousted, fat, jolly Producer Sheehan remained, on such good terms with Mr. Fox's enemies that, instead of losing his job as the studio's production head, he held it through two reorganizations. In 1932, when he had the nervous breakdown which is often another Hollywood euphemism for an ousting, it looked as if Producer Sheehan might be through. Instead, though his importance in Fox was somewhat lessened by the introduction of outside producers like Sol Wurtzel and Jesse Lasky, he continued in power, made such successes as Cavalcade and State Fair...
...begun to wear on him. He at once plunged into the book publishing firm of Ray Long & Richard Smith. They had some successes, more failures. Suddenly one day in 1932 Ray Long walked out of his Manhattan office "a couple of jumps ahead of a nervous breakdown," sailed off for the South Sea Islands. From that point on the Long career became a study in descending discords...
...that Discovery was defeated by Cavalcade every time they met, he won consistently on other occasions, piled up $49,555 in prizes which made him the fifth biggest winner of 1934. This year, while Cavalcade has been in his stall, harassed by lameness, coughs and everything except a nervous breakdown, Discovery, a long-striding chestnut colt, has been making himself the outstanding handicap racehorse on the U. S. turf...