Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stories of that battle-scarred generation, none equalled for horror or hysteria the shooting in Ford's New Theatre in Washington on the evening of April 14, 1865. So confused were early reports that the Tribune, like many another paper, could think of nothing better to do than print the flashes as they came off the wire...
...clear, sweet notes of the bugle, in these points lies the test of its merit. It is unfortunate, perhaps, but all too true, that even in contemporary youth there is a fatal weakness for romance that can be fearfully strengthened overnight by the evil genius of war hysteria, a weakness that no amount of premeditated cynicism seems able to control. And there are those, ready for war because they do not fight, who will take The Veterans of Future Wars in typical utilitarian fashion at face value...
...Weston State Hospital last week Dr. John Edward Offner, the wise superintend ent, quickly abandoned the theory that sexual stirrings in adolescent Teresa Hawkins caused her hysteria. He well knew that a lesion in the brain or a lesion in the abdomen could produce the same kind of false laughter. Upon examining Teresa Hawkins, Dr. Offner found that an appendectomy had resulted in abdominal adhesions. These affected both her diaphragm and womb, put a strain upon her constitution which she withstood until her shorthand studies exhausted her. Then she lost all emotional control. Soon as Dr. Offner performed a second...
...cause, the accessories before the fact were incapacity, irresponsibility. As an eyewitness to Germany's fatal mistakes, Author Wolff lists many. She sacrificed England's all-important neutrality for a big navy. Her diplomatic service was "a stronghold of anarchy.'' The Kaiser's vacillating hysteria played hob with any sensible, straightforward policy. Author Wolff quotes some of the revealing marginalia the Kaiser was fond of jotting on state papers ("Bosh!" "What does this civilian know about it!" "Poltroon!" "Idiocy!"), gives several instances when his angry orders, if carried out, would have meant instant...
Since "China Seas" Hollywood has been using its best brains to create unusual and romantic melodramas. "The Prisoner of Shark Island" is undoubtedly one of the best of the cycle. The story is authentic, based on the tragedy of Dr. Mudd's life. Convicted, in reality, by mob hysteria, to life imprisonment, the doctor who had unwittingly taken care of the injured John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's assassin was sent to America's hell hole off the Florida Coast. Warner Baxter, who contributes perhaps the finest performance of his career in this picture, makes Dr. Mudd the epitome of suffering...