Word: delirium
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...other day to Yale undergraduates on English University life, Professor William L. Phelps '87, said: "Daily life in English colleges is remarkably different from that in Yale. While breakfast abroad is the most sociable meal of the day, usually lasting two or three hours, at Yale it is a delirium. Why, the other morning I was walking along Elm street with an elderly lady, when we observed several students rushing towards the Old Campus after breakfast. 'Look at those poor, dear boys with their tongues hanging out,' sympathized the old lady. "Those aren't tongues, those are griddle cakes...
...allowed to use the term) has long been classed with forgotten disasters. It appeared and disappeared in New York shortly after the Paris exposition in 1925. No one makes it now and no one buys it. Only New York thought it found in the erotic delirium of "moderne" a salvation of American home furnishing artistry. Grand Rapids did not participate in this fiasco...
...burlesque of the American West and its religion is no exception. The irrepressible Shavian effervescence keeps it moving fast from first line to last. And the Stagers do their hit for the glory of the celestial due. Francis G. Cleveland as Blanco mixes subtle perception and incipient delirium tremens in just the right proportions. Philip Bourneuf does a masterly job of hypocritical piety as Elder Daniels. Aldrich Bowker, though erring occasionally on the side of the obvious, makes for the most part a delightfully comic sheriff. The rest of the cast, clear down to the twelfth member of the rough...
...fever usually manifests itself by a sudden chill and a rise of body temperature to 104° or 105° F. Temperature remains at that exhausting height for 13 or 14 days. Until the ninth day the victim usually is nauseated, has wracking headache. About the ninth day the headache fades, delirium ensues. The patient is apt to be wild and active, or he may be capable of only low, incoherent mutterings. He cannot sleep; he trembles constantly; he is deeply prostrated. If he is to die, death ensues usually between the ninth and twelfth days. Otherwise on the 13th or 14th...
...purposely?" queried M. Doumer. "Not purposely?" The President sank into alternate coma and delirium, seem ingly worried about why anyone should have wished to run him down, moaning occasionally, "Strange, I remember nothing...