Word: delirium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Louvain the pride of a nation. The manuscripts and volumes, all too scanty, that remained as the inheritance of the present world from the mighty Charles V and Thomas a Kempis are gone--"destroyed by German fury", some would say; but how can one nation be accused for a delirium in which the whole world raged...
Those who fished the young woman out of Berlin waters found her in delirium and unable to tell her own name. Taken to a sanitarium, she encountered one Fraulein Peutert who soon made the striking announcement that the new patient was the Grand Duchess Tatiana, second daughter of Nicholas the Last. When the Baroness de Buxhaven, onetime Maid of Honor at the Court of Nicholas II, visited the young woman in Berlin and positively declared that she was not Tatiana, it was later announced that she is Anastasia...
...night that Lethy, one of her half-sisters, kills the lover who has deserted her, Theodosia, seeing the parallel with her own experience, goes to the house made hateful to her by her father's unforgotten lusts. Under this final strain of horror, her mind crumbles into delirium. When she recovers, Theodosia goes to the country to live with her aunt. Here another nightmare threatens her with black hands. Her aunt, in the narrow bitterness of old age, sustains her hatred of life upon meager leathery biscuits. The house is overun with savage dogs, the descendants of the hounds...
Late in June cartoonists and feature writers of metropolitan newspapers enjoy a field day at the expense of the hosts of bearers of diplomas which step forth into the world. Such levity is inevitable, but it should not, and it does not, impair the delirium of the last week of a college career. It is the Seniors hour, and none should approach to mar the glory whose memory will remain ever bright...
...Delirium of the 18th Amendment" is a searching sarcasm on the Great Misfortune, depicting a doctor endeavoring to cram a medicine into the unwilling maw of his patient, confined in a straitjacket. This is a Japanese jibe, by Eitaro Ishigaki...