Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...permitting photographers to lie untrampled on their backs, instead of keeping lanes open and business functioning as usual. Newspapers and national broadcasters screamed invitations to all and sundry to come to the Big Show, instead of pleading with the public to ignore the boy and permit sanity to overcome hysteria. John Warde was offered a baseball game, instead of a job. Whatever his last thoughts may have been, it is certain he received the thrill of his unimportant lifetime to find himself in the spotlight, which is all he started out to do in the first place. Whether he jumped...
...Ripley broadcast, frenzied Announcer Graham McNamee took the microphone and, with customary hysteria, burbled his story of Kuda Bux walking twice through 20 feet of fire. Actually, the fire was in two separate ten-foot pits...
Sirens screamed, 21 bombs (a Presidential salute) exploded, the band played A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, and the screaming and shouting, whistling and waving, yelling and yowling McNutt Democrats of Indiana indulged themselves in the first hysteria...
...hiring of Hicks is perhaps the most positive academic step that the University has taken forward this year. It tears away the shirt of jingoistic hysteria which covers the breast of every unenlightened politicians. It establishes the worthy principle of hiring teachers who openly admit their radicalism and shames men who, while propagandizing in their classrooms, try to conceal their political sentiments. Recognizing Marxism as a serious and possibly worthwhile approach to literature and history is an intelligent action that cannot be successfully assailed by uninformed and fanatic political reactionaries such as exist in the Massachusetts legislature...
...course it is effective," cabled Matthews of the bombing. "Human beings are not built to withstand such horror . . . makes one either hysterical or on the verge of hysteria . . . hard to remain sane...