Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...watched the U. S. Sit-Down epidemic of 1937 spread out across the land. From Salem witchcraft persecution to Ku Klux Klan, from Gold Rush of 1849 to Bull Market of 1929, the U. S. has shown itself no less subject than its sister nations to seizures of mass hysteria. The Sit-Down last week remained primarily a new and powerful weapon in the hands of Organized Labor. But the 600 cigar-factory girls who sat down for extra pay in Newark, N. J. had no union, did not want one. The seven Negro wet nurses who sat down...
Most forceful speaker advocating repeal of the law in the House was Jackson Holtz of Boston, who answered fears of the proponents by declaring that "the cry of Communism was a hysteria whipped up by a newspaper publisher." Backing him up. Ralph V. Clampit echoed President Conant's stand by pointing out that the spirit of allegiance to the United States must be voluntary if we were to have patriotism...
...trio walking into Jim's place after the beating administered to Yale Saturday night were discussing the meet and the principal star, and the hysteria which had been aroused was well summed up by one of them when he said, "Boy, I'm telling you, Hutter is next to God tonight." He was probably not the only one who would have said just about the same thing, for Harvard was more emotionly aroused after that clash than they have been since the already historical 14-14 tie with Princeton...
...having a stolen book on witches. Ann gets even with Tituba by pretending to be bewitched. Then Ann's mother testifies that Tituba bewitched her too. Soon the folk begin to find the charge of witchcraft handy for paying off grudges. Once roaring on its way, the hysteria veers round to Barbara when she temerously defends an accused person, gains substantiation when Tim Clarke, her cousin, testifies that when he saw her with somebody she said she was with "no man," a statement which the listeners take to mean that she was with Beelzebub. After that only Roger...
...spent $20.000. She hoped to sell it to a U. S. zoo for $15,000. But just as she was about to take it aboard the U. S.-bound Empress of Russia, Chinese customs officials seized it on the grounds that she had obtained no export permit. In near-hysteria Mrs. Harkness spent the night in the Shanghai customs house, nursing her precious cub from a bottle while the Empress of Russia sailed without her. After friends had helped her post a large cash bond, customs officials permitted Mrs. Harkness to take the baby giant to her hotel, suggested payment...