Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recalling the World War years, most German-Americans agree that their neighbors' spy hysteria shattered not only their nerves but, for a time, their faith in the U. S. as well. Yet during that frantic period, Austrian Immigrant Ludwig Bemelmans, a 19-year-old U. S. Army recruit whose English could barely be understood, almost completely escaped the spy mania and acquired an affection for the U. S. that embraced factory landscapes, a "wondrously beautiful" prostitute and the insane. My War with the United States, a translation of his German diary, is the record of that sunny Americanization. Smiling...
...more riots. Said Paramount News Editor A. J. Richard in reply to a Civil Liberties body which challenged the suppression: ". . . Please remember that whereas newspapers reach individuals in the home, we show to a public gathered in groups averaging 1,000 or more and therefore subject to crowd hysteria when assembled in the theatre." One man who saw the film explained: "It made me want to go out and bite a policeman...
Finding no intoxicant gases in the sugar factory, doctors concluded that the monotonous machines had driven the young women into a mass hysteria, the psychic phenomenon used with striking effect by Charlie Chaplin in his last picture, Modern Times...
...view of the public dog-poisoning hysteria, her lawyer obtained a fortnight's stay of trial. Pointing out that Mrs. Tuttle had for years been an S. P. C. A. worker, a contributor to Manhattan's famed Ellin Prince Speyer Animal Hospital, he said: "Mrs. Tuttle is the victim of an adverse public opinion. . . . Mrs. Tuttle likes dogs, and it is not unusual that she stopped to feed some...
...special effects by James Basevi (San Francisco), is a reproduction of the sinking of the Titanic. The best shot in the picture-the horrible apparition of the fatal berg through the fog-is done with glass on a split screen. The collision itself is a miniature. The hysteria at the lifeboats, the singing of Nearer, My God, To Thee were made on a life-scale ship...