Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...football mass meetings at Harvard, this kindred slump among the Elis must be regarded as a direct refutation of any explaining cause except that of a saner adjustment of athletic interest in both colleges. It is regrettable that Yale has encroached upon the portion of distaste for crowd hysteria lately and solely possessed by the ten thousand men. But it has done so and what barbs are thrown in the future must be received upon the joined bucklers of the two elder Universities. R. K. Safford...
...spell. Twenty-five years of Stadium tradition are rounded out in this afternoon's Dartmouth gridiron appearance. Athletics were a casual pastime when the men from Hanover first came to Cambridge; it was that long ago. And yet, such is the effect of partial anti-climax, popular and newspaper hysteria are at an ultimate low ebb. Cadets and campaigners, Dempseys and dirigibles have harrowed the public. For the only time in recent memory, there is a possibility that the fifty few thousand who attend the game will be composed of those who actually are interested in the jarring combat...
...shot scared Mrs. Mildred Stevens Morf, 27, of Brooklyn, N. Y. In the next room, she learned, a housepainter had mortally shot his brother, Herman Goldenberg, dentist. Mrs. Morf fainted. Taken home, she did not revive; would not speak or eat. Last week she died, from acute hysteria...
...Hysteria, trickiest of psychopathic states, is an escape from reality, from conflict. Mrs. Morf it protected from the horror of nearby murder. For her it was too thorough. Others it protects from scolding, from efforts. Sometimes hysteria comes on involuntarily; often the man, woman or child (having observed its value) willfully scurries into it; more often the person tries to fight off an attack and, horrified, watches himself sink into contrariness...
...slap in the face or other physical insult will occasionally stop a hysteric fit. But such are dangerous to many victims. Their hysteria is too deeply ground in character, in brain, in nerves. The deep hysteric may pretend practically every disease, every deformity known to medicine. Some women want children so badly that they actually become bloated. The stigmata frequently reported seen on religious exaltes are hysteric in origin. If the hysteric's malingering continues long the simulated infirmity may cause actual disease. Only the wiliest of doctors can discern the hysteric's true state. And only...