Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three years at the beginning of the century, Clifford Whittingham Beers was in hospitals and sanitoriums with a mental breakdown. It was caused by his foolish fear of being an epileptic, his overwork as a Yale undergraduate and later as an insurance clerk. Although wracked by wild illusions, his mind lucidly registered on his experiences. When he became well he had the impulse to document himself, to start a movement for the amelioration of the then unintelligently managed insane asylums. WTilliam James encouraged him. Psychiatrist Adolf Meyer invented for him the phrase "mental hygiene." Great names joined his movement...
Died. Charles Sydney Gilpin, 52, Negro, creator of the title role in Dramatist Eugene O'Neill's Emperor Jones, playwright (Her Other Husband; Listen, Dearie); after a year's nervous breakdown partially due to discouragement; near Trenton...
Last week was paid the record high fine for smuggling. The Customs' Collector at New York received a check for $213,286, signed by Mrs. Robert L. Dodge, president of Harriet Hubbard Ayer Inc. (cosmetics). Mrs. Dodge was in bed with nervous breakdown. Inspectors who pawed the trunkfuls, cratefuls of lavish riches brought in by Mr. & Mrs. Dodge last month on the S. S. Ile de France are still marveling. A panorama of silks, satins, furs was there, and a rajah-worthy collection of diamond jewelry. Scant room remained that day on the pier for the effects...
...Nervous Breakdown. Why was St. Gandhi in effect kidnaped by due process of law? The crushing mental and moral stresses set up by his movement had caused the nervous breakdown, earlier in the week, of Sir Horatio Norman Bolton, chief commissioner of the North West Frontier Prince. In a state of emotional collapse Sir Horatio sailed for England, beaten by weapons beyond his ken, as St. Gandhi hopes many another and finally all Englishmen will sail. Moreover, mutiny was in the air. After hiding the fact for days, His Majesty's Government was obliged to admit in an official...
...breakdown of the wire between Cambridge and Princeton has definitely exceeded the limits of the merely temporary; and yet virtually no one in either camp is pleased to think it permanent...