Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With "Save the Peace" their rallying cry, men, women, and baby-carriages from the Harvard community will converge upon Memorial Hall triangle at noon today for a protest meeting aimed against "war hysteria" and Universal Military Training. Fair weather is forecast...
Alarm over the "present war hysteria" led to the organization of a "Save the Peace" action committee yesterday afternoon in a meeting at Phillips Brooks House...
Backers of "Save the Peace" include Manny Margolis 1G, Jerome T. Kilty '50, Ernest M. Howell '47, William D. Brown '46, Mendy Weisgal 1G, Noel D. Lee '46, and Burton S. Glinn '46. Their brief platform states: "We want peace. We oppose the present war hysteria in the government and the press. We oppose UMT and the draft because they are war measures...
Eileen Gibson, an actress of sorts, had been playing Lorna, the prizefight manager's floozy in a South African production of Golden Boy. Some testified that she was something like Lorna in real life. Others testified that she was given to inexplicable bouts of hysteria and fainting; that she had said she was pregnant; that she had accepted her fare home and ?350 from a nightclub owner...
...natives called it "Hoosier hysteria" or "Hoosier hoopla." All but three of Indiana's 782 public high schools-from little Raub High (student body: 18) to Indianapolis' Arsenal Tech (student body: 4,578)-were entered. The grown-ups took it more seriously than the kids. Farmers stopped working. Storekeepers closed up shop and went gallivanting off to watch their local heroes perform. Indiana's excitement was matched in Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota, where other state tourneys are in progress. In the Midwest last week it was easy to prove that basketball, the poor boy's game...