Word: hysterias
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Most fearsome of all rumors is the rumor of war. Living in an atmosphere heavy with war talk, the foreign correspondent is usually immune to war hysteria. Yet more than once the foreign correspondents have marched the people of Europe to the brink of battle and then marched them back again...
English snobbery made her fume, but she later decided a rigid caste system had the good result of making modest-income people immune to success stories, and hence to U. S. "bootstrap hysteria." "A good deal in England makes the blood boil," says Author Halsey, "but there is not nearly so much occasion as there is in America for blood to run cold"-meaning lynchings, gangsters, etc. As between good and bad Englishness, Author Halsey calls it about a draw. "Living in England," she concludes, "must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife. Whenever you have...
...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...