Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...absence of male society, feverish unrest at times approaching hysteria moves among these healthy females. But the mysterious conception of a child by one ripe and ecstatic ex-servant, followed by a teeming succession of pregnancies among the other women (of equally mysterious causation), calms all and gives rise to a salutary myth about Mukalinda, deity of fertilization, who appears as a brightly burning youth; and to a satisfying religion under a female godhead, Bona...
First Game. Mastiff-faced Joe Harris (Washington), no blood relative of Manager Stanley ("Bucky") Harris, but sharing his ideas, caused the first outbreak of hysteria by slamming a home run into the arms of the band behind a temporary fence in right field. Aged Roger Peckinpaugh (discarded by the Yankees as too gouty) came up to bat in the fifth inning, hit one of Pitcher Meadows' (Pittsburgh) offerings, filled bases which already contained Harris and Bluege. Up came Rice. Oof! Strike one. . . . Sugg! Strike two. . . .Pitcher Meadows smiled, wound up to pitch strike three; Rice swung, fans shrieked seeing...
...mother in the case is edging into middle age reluctantly. She has devices to stay beautiful; she has no brains; she has a lover. Her son's fiancee and the lover are attracted honestly; want to marry. The son, a neurotic, effeminate youth, bursts into helpless hysteria. It is this last part that Mr. Coward plays; nervously, overpoweringly. Several other characters are English players from the London company. Particularly is the mother's part effective as played by Lillian Braithwaite. And, lest this superlative and swift synopsis should suggest tragedy, be it said that The Vortex is a comedy...
...leads to the question of the mind's place in nature and the universe. Some of the topics within the field of psychology are: comparative psychology, a comparison of the various types of animal mind and the human mind; abnormal psychology, covering such phenomena as hypnosis, double personality, hysteria, insanity; social psychology, the study of human nature as it appears in social relations; the psychology of artistic appreciation; the psychology of religion; physiological psychology, the examination of the physiological basis of mind; genetic psychology, the study of the growth of mind; the psychology of education; intelligence tests; applied psychology, that...
Phillips Brooks House has slumbered through another report and still the college believes that Social Service is anything but a silly name. Year after year the student is buoyed up by the hysteria of platform idealism to undertake something for which he has neither time nor interest. Year after year, the high-sounding phrases of early fall fade along towards winter, into the stern reality of a dirty, noisy neighborhood house. Boredom takes the place of quasi enthusiasm and the student struggles painfully and hopelessly for a while, only to let it all drop in the end. He knows then...