Word: hypochondriac
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Sick Leader. That inveterate hypochondriac, Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye, still lay abed with the "cold" he caught two weeks ago-a good deal less sick than his 100,000,000 people in featherweight houses had begun to feel. Bed was no place for the Premier at a time like this, and the influential Tokyo Asahi was only echoing the growing concern of the country when it came out and told Prince Konoye so. In the frankest piece of criticism a newspaper has directed at the Premier since he became head of the Government, Asahi said...
Prince Konoye is the world's most celebrated political hypochondriac; he frequently takes to his bed when things get tough. Lart week that part of the world which lies in the path of Japan's ambition was sure Japan was on the brink...
...year in Hollywood. Much to his taste is a role that deals frivolously with love. In all his contracts, Horton includes an unwritten clause that he shall not be compelled to play a married man, kiss a woman, have any children. A bedside-bottle hypochondriac, he is nervous about his diet, which is rigidly supervised by his 82-year-old mother, who accompanies him almost everywhere. Feverishly interested in antiques, Horton has acquired all kinds of bric-a-brac on his barnstorming. He ships his finds back to "Belleigh Acres," his estate on the edge of Hollywood, to which...
...Pennsylvania in its birth was a planned society," Bates observes. To his mind Penn was a great political thinker, the Quaker Colony was democracy's brightest hope. While that prurient sadist and hypochondriac, Cotton Mather, was torturing old women for witchcraft in Massachusetts, Penn dismissed a charge of broomstick riding with the remark that there was no law in Pennsylvania against riding on broomsticks. Penn's incredibly dramatic-and in the end tragic-life has nowhere been better told...
...Bolsheviks in his native Russia hold him in great respect, Igor Stravinsky has become a Frenchman. Though he has a home in Paris, he travels restlessly and incessantly, spending much of his time in the U. S., where he lectures and teaches a composition seminar at Harvard University. A hypochondriac, afraid of the cold, he bundles himself to the ears when he goes out walking, does muscle-flexing exercises before an open window when he gets up, recently cut himself down from 40 to five French cigarets a day, worries about his own and everybody else's health. Once...