Word: hysterias
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Cafe-Society (Paramount). Within the last decade, a variety of influences, including Repeal, Depression, the servant problem and congenital hysteria, have caused one faction in Manhattan's insecure aristocracy of wealth to spend their evenings in public restaurants rather than their homes. As a group, this faction got itself labeled Cafe Society. Top chroniclers of Manhattan society are "Cholly Knickerbocker" (Maury Paul), $50,000-a-year oldtime smart-setter for the New York Journal and American, and Lucius Beebe who writes a weekly column for the New York Herald Tribune...
Anyone daring to suggest that the German army, perhaps the best disciplined in the world at that time, did not spend all its time committing atrocities was of course "pro-German." Such courageous men as Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh, who tried to remain clear-sighted in the face of hysteria, who protested America's entry into the War, were, naturally, traitors-though history has proved them right and proved the rest of us a gullible group of limp-wits, victims of the most obvious propaganda...
...preparation were devoted to the anniversary of the Boer's futile trek for freedom. Three men in every four grew beards-symbols of Boer virility and spiritual grace. A caravan of eight oxcarts set out to follow the route of the original trek. As the caravan progressed, hysteria grew. At the instigation of German spellbinders the hysteria shaded from pride in pioneer traditions, to intense nationalism, to open hatred of British and Jews...
...several retired officers did so in a symposium published by the United States News. Gruffest was Major General George Van Horn Moseley, who last September directed a blast at the New Deal when he retired. Last week he wrote: "Much of our present weakness is in the fear and hysteria being engendered among the American people for ... political purpose. ... A nation so scared and so burdened financially is not in a condition to lick anybody. And then, who in hell are we afraid of? With Japan absorbed . . . with the balance of power so nearly equal in Europe, where is there...
...ailment may have a psychological cause and appear indistinguishable from a genuine organic disease. Doctors used to treat such hysteria with hypnosis, now try psychoanalysis. Addie Belle's deafness prevents this sort of treatment...