Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beginning to put football in its place. If it over becomes fashionable for him to lose entire interest in the doings of the so-called 'Varsity in favor of personal participation in a slightly less strenuous adaptation, the game will cease to wag and the college and public hysteria will find another outlet. The steady growth of a more mature intelligence throughout the student bodies of the various schools of any intellectual and cultural importance will eventually accomplish all that the most hysterical. Viewer with Alarm could wish for, and with less fuss and attendant by-products of ennui...
...appeared as though he would veto any attempt of the Texas Legislature to prohibit cotton planting next year. Said he: "I wouldn't let a child burn itself with fire if I could prevent it. ... I have not been swept off my feet yet. There is too much hysteria in Texas and in the South." He said he feared the "Drop-a-Crop" idea would be unconstitutional. Besides, there was always the chance that Egypt, India, Russia and the other cotton-producing countries of the world would expand their production and gobble up the U. S. market if the South...
...jerks, the barks, the hysterical whoops-&-jingles. Brother Semple preached the opening sermon at nightfall, on The Death of a Sinner. He panicked the crowd, laid them in holy rolling rows. Aristocrat Lou Crawford, who had come curiously with her uncle, soon wished she hadn't. Mob hysteria laid her low, nearly scared her out of her skin. Up front in the ''straw pen" (an enclosure made safe for writhing revivalists by strewn straw) male & female sinners flopped in convulsions...
...Hysteria. As the week progressed it became blazingly apparent that whether the Holiday was in effect or not, a moratorium alone would not save Germany from bankruptcy. She needed cash, lots of it, at once. Germany was growing hysterical. Foreign investors were withdrawing money from Germany to the tune of nearly $20,000.000 a day. German citizens remembering all too vividly the black days of inflation in 1923, were putting all their savings in foreign money, francs, pounds, dollars, and they wanted gold. Bank tellers reported that even paper dollars were spurned by the timorous. Wealthy German families were heading...
...professional diplomat may be true, but to base a defamation of character upon this premise is inexcusable. The harm done Germany is infinitely greater by Bulow's memoirs than by Bethmann's statement. One was the honest admission of an honest man made under the stress of the hysteria of war. The other was a political criticism by a political man issued after bitter deliberation in time of peace...