Word: hysterias
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...rebuke. Herewith the real Blanche Bates (who never wore tights) as she appeared in 1901 in Under Two Flags. A private company produced The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin, though the CPI (which effectively suppressed other movies) let it pass without comment. TIME stated that Creel "deplored the national hysteria which his Committee had so successfully fostered." In general, as Authors Mock & Larson amply showed, George Creel's CPI occupied the position of bellwether of the propaganda herd...
This country is in grave danger of being involved in the European war. The mounting hysteria has already increased the danger of involvement and has threatened to eclipse the fundamental civil liberties of the American people. In refusing us our right to hear a speaker of our choice, the Administration can only contribute to this undemocratic hysteria. In taking such a step the Administration can only align itself with those who, according to a recent Crimson editorial, "are trying to build for the United States a super-highway straight to Armageddon...
...Winnie Ruth Judd was blonde, slim, shapely, 26. That was the day she killed her friends. Many times in the next 15 months, passionate Mrs. Judd earned in full her newspaper nickname "The Blonde Tigress." She dropped her hysteria, her fits of blank staring, only when an impressionable jury had saved her from a scaffold-drop by judging her insane...
...being rehired. In the last year or so a great university has sent a widow the check for the last salary of a professor fired because he did not support the American involvement in the last European war. Most objectors, however, were broken at the wheel of the war hysteria of that time...
...Fish organization-the National Committee to Keep America Out of Foreign Wars-with headquarters in Fish's office, using Government facilities and employes, had been sending out appeals for campaign funds on official stationery. The funds were to offset what the Fish committee called "the New Deal war-hysteria campaign" and "to expose these efforts to involve...