Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Thomas Fleming, 78, political cartoonist; at Maplewood, N. J. hospital; following a physical breakdown in Florida last year. An oldtime Democrat, he cartooned for the World, the Sun, the Commercial Advertiser. His "Senator Tillman's Allegorical Cow" grinned from every fencepost in the Bryan-Taft campaign of 1908. The cow was depicted standing on a map of the U. S., with farmers working to feed her mouth in the West. Wall Street bankers milking her in the East...
...author would have it, Tillie's old lover turned up at this point, and just as the humiliation of being actually in love was threatening to bring Jo to a normal level, he overheard a conversation which even a cleverer man would have understood. When his consequent breakdown, complicated with influenza, failed to bring him Death, he married faithful Alice-leaving the story a sadder, much less interesting...
...Nothing Mayor. Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker's public reaction to the vice investigation was, for the most part, passive. He did summon civic leaders to City Hall to warn them that the wholesale charges against his police department threatened a complete breakdown of police morale and the return of a "wide-open" town. Otherwise he did nothing in his most do-nothing manner and Tammany's joke of the week was: ''Well, we gave New York the best judges money could...
...shoes shined and his long, scraggly mustache trimmed. Close at hand as an escort was the Squirrel Rifle Brigade of which all members are officers. Afterwards a great dance was thrown open to the public without written invitations. Governor Murray led the first old-fashioned square dance with "breakdown fiddlers" playing in the corner...
...week the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics made known these findings concerning the strain of flying upon the flyer: bodily resources become exhausted, "staleness" sets in. The flyer loses confidence, judgment, keenness for flying; he is easily discouraged. Aviators are apt to become irritable and must guard carefully against nervous breakdown, etc. etc. Observed the Navy: "Flying is a strange pursuit for man. . . . After [he] has flown as long as he has walked, he may expect to develop the necessary resistance...