Word: euphoria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Most characteristic change was a loss of stiffness in the joints, followed by improvement in general sense of well-being, culminating in euphoria...
...Euphoria & Rebuffs. At Rugby Brooke was noted for his prehensile toes, with which he could shoot marbles; at Cambridge he tried to act, but was poor at it; and he paid for his remarkable euphoria in fits of nervous depression. He was not always irresistible. Amy Lowell stood up and shouted "Speak up, speak up" at one of his readings; Ford Madox Ford elegantly rebuffed...
Except in Saroyan's world, barroom philosophers who intrude on new customers with the words "What's the dream?" are seldom answered courteously; and when euphoria enchants any saloon for more than five consecutive minutes, you can expect a quick return of trouble, or boredom, or both. The face on Saroyan's barroom floor has something unassailably good about the eyes. But the smile is that of a swindling parson who is sure his own swindle is for the greater glory...
During one operation, "[I had] a feeling of insecurity, apprehension . . . great pain. I expressed a general euphoria [a sometimes-false sense of well-being]." He also professed frivolity, made such clinical jokes as "I'm against all isms; especially embolism...
Prince Thag rode through the Valley of Euphoria, and birds sang "verti verti verti go." In the Forest of Jeopardy, he slew the Blue Boar (it was sound asleep...