Word: hysterias
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...manner of sibilances and razzberries. The demonstration was not really rowdy anyway: it was incredibly well-organized, although motivated by genuine indignation: nobody got hit; nobody said anything stronger than "drat." It is not true that the "zealots," as you call them (we imagine you are probably against "hysteria," too), played into Smith's hands and gave him good publicity; it would seem on the contrary that the occasion proved that there are at least 700 people in the Boston Area--who won't stand for Jew-baiting, Negro-baiting and the rest of Smith's bag of tricks...
Pancakes. But most sensible people were inclined to laugh it all off. Scientists and aviation officials, to whom the mystified U.S. turned for an explanation, were sure that the whole thing was nothing more than "mass hysteria." Englishmen began to compare the "flying saucers" to Scotland's Loch Ness monster...
...Hysteria. At the home of Mr. & Mrs. H. C. F. Harwood, near Regent's Park, one of London's few refrigerators (about one British family in 35 owns one) chose this crucial moment to spring a leak. To save their Pekingese bitch, Anna, from asphyxiation, the Harwoods hung her out of the window in a string bag. Whether Anna survived the treatment without hysterics was not reported, but as the weekend approached with cooling thunderstorms, the ever-helpful Evening Standard had a final word of advice for other dog lovers. "Dog hysteria," pronounced the Standard, "has its root...
Wallace expressed his faith in the "purifying effect of American democracy" to wash away press and political distortions of the present hysteria wave, which he likened to the days of A. Mitchell Palmer's Red Scare. "The truth eventually comes out," he said...
...Hysteria, the endemic malady of the Boston Press, broke loose again yesterday as the Traveler caught sight of female figures in the Harvard Yard and let out its biennial cry of "co-education...