Word: claustrophobia
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...Claustrophobia...
Perhaps the Vagabond was suffering from a slight attack of claustrophobia. Certainly the surroundings were enough to make most people who cared for the great open spaces, mountains, prairies, or the sea, go a bit whacky. Once, when a little tiny boy, he had been taken by his parents to visit the county jail of his home town in Connecticut. It was a dark redbrick building, ivy-clad, and punctuated with tiny windows covered with lattice grille-work in strong steel. There was something bout that window at the end of the corridor of the library that reminded...
...bright spring day three damoiselles were gaily endeavoring to turn their roadster around in Holyoke Street. It was the kind of a car that means for the open road, and its mood was the mood of its fair inhabitants. And it frankly gave in to claustrophobia and wouldn't turn. So the hilarious females, full of the joie de vivre, summoned a passing Harvard lad to extricate them from their troubles. Sir Lancelot obliged like a true knight, but, the troubles over, he was heard by the damsels no longer in distress to drop the remark "Just Radcliffe...
...healthy man of average intelligence and sound mind." But Brigadier-General Edward Louis Spears, husband of U.S.-born Novelist Mary Borden, spoke he shocked opinion of many an Englishman when he uprose in Parliament to berate the prison governor. General Spears declared that Thomas Parker had unquestionably suffered from claustrophobia, the ear of confined places. Claustrophobia is a fact. Author James Branch Cabell says he cannot write unless e sits facing an open door. Many another person can testify that human beings do eel anything from a mild uneasiness to a frantic, sickening urge to escape when cooped...