Word: hyperthyroidism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...photograph of this occasion. Among the hundreds of faces was one which, "despite the conspicuous ordinariness of [its] features, seemed illumined by an emotion unusual even in this crowd. It was a haggard, sickly face; the broad, bushy mustache gave it an artificially wild look; the protruding, hyperthyroid eyes sent forth an exaggerated gleam. . . . The man to whom this face belongs stands apparently alone in the crowd...
...Hyperthyroid...
...what sort of rudeness moved TIME to call PM "hyperthyroid" and refer to its "characteristic shrillness" in the very same press review, despite your admission that PM's reporter "Beichman was right?" Is it fair and in good taste to sling muddy insinuations at another publication without provocation...
...Reader Backer stop wearing PM's heart on his sleeve. Wrote PM's Managing Editor John P. Lewis in an editorial: ". . . The TIME report . . . nailed down the situation and our role in it better than we had been able to do ourselves. . . . 'Hyperthyroid' (take it from TIME) PM . . . appreciates the 'vim' tag but mildly denies 'characteristic shrillness.' Or - maybe I could, be wrong...
...Governor was spluttery angry. Rising stiffly from his chair in the gilt-domed Massachusetts State House on Boston's famed Common, he surveyed the handful of newsmen gathered before him for his weekly press conference. Then he said to Reporter Arnold Beichman of New York's hyperthyroid PM: "I should think that was a stinking article and you get right out of this office . . . and stay out." A State trooper escorted Reporter Beichman, 5 ft. 5 and 137 lb., to the street...