Word: delirium
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...realm of Americana. Depicted in 1,676 black & white wash drawings, all a little more than a foot square and all by the same artist, was a breathtaking medley of scenes and events, ranging from the crucifixion of Christ to the execution of Nathan Hale, from an attack of delirium tremens to the Ride of John Gilpin, from Little Britches left out in the snow to Poet Poe addressing the Raven. Sentimental though most of the subjects were, the craftsmanship in each picture was remarkably good. And not a single one had ever seen the light of print or public...
...publish stuff sure of a small sale and equally certain to cause wonder whether a grown man can really indulge seriously in the sort of humor peculiar to Cummings. If we may believe Laura Riding and Robert Graves, however, the punctuation and spelling characteristic of Cummings are not the delirium tremens of the type-font, but originate in a wholly grave effort to make himself understood, to fix the attention of "bad readers" on the passage before them. Contemplating what has been done to Shakspere's punctuation, so that the meaning of many Shaksperian passages is often wrenched, Cummings...
...become purplish, more deeply brownish red, and finally fade into a brown color. ... A symptom of considerable importance, early and rarely missed, is the severe headache which is apt to be more unbearable in this disease than in other acute fevers. . . . When the rash, together with fever and headache, delirium and extreme weakness, is clearly described, typhus is easily recognized; but it must be remembered that the rash in the mild, isolated endemic cases-and especially among children-may be so slight and transient that often it is not noticed at all by the physician unfamiliar with the disease...
...that he must continue college because as soon as he becomes a lawyer they will have plenty of money. The Mighty Barnum (Twentieth Century) introduces its hero (Wallace Beery) as the proprietor of a Manhattan general store, busily trading lightning rods for three-headed frogs while a friend has delirium tremens in Mrs. Barnum's bed. As soon as Bailey Walsh (Adolphe Menjou) is able to stand up, he and Barnum buy a livery stable with Mrs. Barnum's savings. There, with "George Washington's 169-year-old nurse" as their star attraction, they start The American...
...less awed by Shakespeare's rich verse than such predecessors in the rôle as Jane Cowl and Eva Le Gallienne. Her technical resource was never strained as she ran the gamut of shy girlishness in the opening scenes, mischievous eroticism on the star lit balcony, near-delirium when about to take Friar Laurence's potion. Newspaper reviewers sent up a praiseful paean to the adjectival accompaniment of: "Lovely! Exquisite! Extraordinary! Marvelous! Thrilling! Exciting! Radiant! True magnificence! Superlative!" Burns Mantle of the Daily News: "The potion scene, I venture, has never been as tellingly read as Miss...