Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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True Baldwin, Chicago tycoon, has reached breakdown-time. His daughter Candace lures him on a vacation back to Connecticut where he was once a farmer boy. As they motor along, they like the countryside, deprecate the ubiquitous Polacks. They find the old house where True's first love, Judith Oakes, used to live. They fall in love with and want to buy it on the spot. The owner, a young New-England-looking man, says his name is Orrange Olszak. Curtain...
...note in your last issue that I have been taken to a sanatorium for observation as a result of a nervous breakdown (TIME, Sept...
...publish lots of gossip, and I suppose you cannot be expected to spend much time finding out whether it is true or not. A reporter for a Los Angeles newspaper called up my wife and said he understood I was suffering from a nervous breakdown. My wife replied that it was absolutely untrue, that I was going to a hospital to have my physician seek the cause of a feverish condition. Nevertheless, the story went out all over the country that I was suffering from a nervous breakdown. Apparently a man in America is absolutely defenseless against newspaper rascality...
...feminist movement in Sweden, partly to work off some of his hatred of woman kind. Revived by Robert Loraine and a company of British actors, it retains all the fury its author put into it 44 years ago, acquires a little more in Mr. Loraine's presentation of the breakdown of a paranoiac mind. Its theme: "Love be tween the sexes is Strife." Adolph (Rob ert Loraine), a Swedish scientist, is con fronted with the problem of what to do about a servant girl who has been seduced by a soldier. Says the soldier (Barrie Livesay...
...body to about 75° F. Then it would shiver, warm & wake itself up, according to Scientist Herrman. Insulin would inhibit the shivering but cause convulsions. Cooling to 70° would stop the convulsions. Corollaries of the plan: "Hibernation might be prescribed as a perfect cure for a nervous breakdown or any form of neurasthenia. Social historians in their prime might be preserved for a couple of generations to describe to their descendants at first hand the manners of a bygone period. Politicians out of office might sleep until their party came once more into power...