Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Broken-spirited, Schaper made a precarious living selling washing machines and the like, finally in 1925, when War hysteria had subsided, went to University of Oklahoma as professor of finance. But the incident rankled in the mind of Pierce Butler's young law clerk, Elmer Benson, as he marched up the political ladder. It still rankled when, 20 years later, the law clerk had become the Farmer-Labor Governor of Minnesota. Last week came the day he had been waiting...
When the Perseus and the Aafje finally reached San Pedro last week little Robert Turner was sick, Mrs. Turner was sobbing, Lillian Morgan had begun to laugh, Nurse Berdan was grim, all near hysteria. Spernak and Home, held on charges of murder, were expected to plead self-defense. The Aafje, which Jean Dee Jarnette had hoped would carry him to a remote Paradise, was promptly attached by two ship chandlers who claimed that the late Dwight Faulding owed them...
Before Mother Cabrini may be beatified, with the title "Blessed," two or more new miracles must be performed through her intercession. Since the Church in its investigations must winnow authentic "wonders" out of hundreds of minor cases of coincidence, hysteria, or self-hypnosis, and even well-meaning fraud, the reputation of the candidate must become widespread so that thousands of faithful may actively pray for miracles to happen. Last week an organization called the Cabrini Cavaliers, formed last year, made ready to seek 100,000 petitioners for Mother Cabrini's early canonization...
...them new to psychiatrists, but enlightening to laymen: 1) Suicide is "an important disease." 2) ''Its incidence can be materially decreased. ..." 3) It "is the ultimate expression of a personality disorder that has progressed through known stages of a neurosis, often with physical complications recognized as hysteria." 4) It "is unresponsive to medical treatment which, in addition to being ineffective, comes too late." 5) "This disorder can be precipitated and aggravated by physical strain and fatigue, psychologic disturbance and conflict, and social and environmental diff-culties...
Suzanne began a furious correspondence mingling hysteria with threats, telling him he would be sorry some day. Realizing now what a "dangerous and artificial girl" she was, he congratulated himself on his narrow escape, vowed he would thereafter confine himself to friends and history. Even the great Rousseau was mixed up in Suzanne's plot to marry him. Rousseau said he would speak to Gibbon, but was glad an accident prevented the appointment, since Gibbon would only make her "unhappy and rich in England." After her marriage to Jacques Necker, Louis XVI's famed Minister for Finance, Suzanne...