Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are times when the efforts of Director Dorothy Arzner to vitalize every possible emotional value of her material become too apparent, as in the mother's hysteria when she first finds out the child is gone, and in the final scene, when the baby, now adolescent, is called upon to choose, in delirium, between his real mother and his foster-mother. These faults are not important. Sarah and Son is a vigorous and moving story, properly told. It covers a long period, and the arrangement of time, perhaps the most difficult problem in building a cinema, is worked...
...ministrations did not quiet her. Dr. Earl Russell White, 36, was called. He could not stop her. She sobbed all that night, all the next day. Thumping her swollen nose did no good, nor slapping her slobbered face. After five days narcotics stultified her. When she awoke her crying hysteria was over. Said Dr. White: "If she holds the record for sobbing, I hold it for loss of sleep...
Harvard is, however, in a position to work for the abolition of football hysteria. While it may be granted that a season spent in playing intramural games, with a single contest with Yale as its climax, would be both dull and, for some time to come, impossible, still, some motion in that direction is desirable. Harvard can, better than most colleges, afford to do without the income that is a constant excuse for foot ball emphasis. It can continue to refuse an enlarged Stadium to be used as a whole on one afternoon in two years. It can instill...