Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Collins of Manhattan, after the experience of a general practice, turned neurologist. He has been asked to unravel the nervous, sexual and emotional snarls of thousands of well-to-do women and some men. Of all U. S. parishes, his is perhaps the most conducive not only to hysteria and hypochondria, especially among its most numerous non-native members, but also to genuine disorders of body, mind and soul. Doctors in less complex communities may well envy the scope for observation that has been his. the diversity and clearcutness of his cases. Proportionately, he has a more rigid test...
...teams this year are effecting what they have hitherto failed to bring about; the whole emphasis of the athletic director and those who are working with him is toward effectiveness tempered with sanity. When the Dartmouth published its editorial on mass meetings the same spirit was expressed. The less hysteria attached to football, the better. So, as in many other varieties of human interest, the truth of the matter seems to be that clarity begins at home. If the larger colleges of the East can maintain sobriety and sense in their athletic contests, if they can realize that football...
...appeal of the Klan came to a people suffering from the hysteria of the World War. Those who had enjoyed power in citizens' committees which forced the purchase of Liberty Bonds, intimated German sympathizers and hounded slackers, saw in the Klan a continued outlet for their patriotism. . . . But far more numerous were those who cherished the racial and religious prejudices of their ancestors...
...title would have been unthinkable in the days when Austria-Hungary was an Empire, would have led to wholesale arrests for lèse-majesté. Even last week, in republican Austria, a young post office official, Ewald Laumann, 23, was driven to the last fringe of emotional hysteria by this curious, true drama of the Habsburgs, the mystery of which is not even yet revealed...
...days before, on a fine cool May morning in the year 1920, a body had been found-smashed lifeless on the pavement in front of a Department of Justice office-the body of another anarchist, a printer. This printer had been arrested for de- portation during the anti-Red hysteria. The man had jumped or been pushed from a 14th floor window. Anarchist Vanzetti, having read the news, joked little that morning with the housewives. "At the same time, Nicola Sacco was working in Stoughton on an edging machine at the Three K's shoe factory...