Word: hysterias
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...view of the public dog-poisoning hysteria, her lawyer obtained a fortnight's stay of trial. Pointing out that Mrs. Tuttle had for years been an S. P. C. A. worker, a contributor to Manhattan's famed Ellin Prince Speyer Animal Hospital, he said: "Mrs. Tuttle is the victim of an adverse public opinion. . . . Mrs. Tuttle likes dogs, and it is not unusual that she stopped to feed some...
...watched the U. S. Sit-Down epidemic of 1937 spread out across the land. From Salem witchcraft persecution to Ku Klux Klan, from Gold Rush of 1849 to Bull Market of 1929, the U. S. has shown itself no less subject than its sister nations to seizures of mass hysteria. The Sit-Down last week remained primarily a new and powerful weapon in the hands of Organized Labor. But the 600 cigar-factory girls who sat down for extra pay in Newark, N. J. had no union, did not want one. The seven Negro wet nurses who sat down...
...special effects by James Basevi (San Francisco), is a reproduction of the sinking of the Titanic. The best shot in the picture-the horrible apparition of the fatal berg through the fog-is done with glass on a split screen. The collision itself is a miniature. The hysteria at the lifeboats, the singing of Nearer, My God, To Thee were made on a life-scale ship...
Most forceful speaker advocating repeal of the law in the House was Jackson Holtz of Boston, who answered fears of the proponents by declaring that "the cry of Communism was a hysteria whipped up by a newspaper publisher." Backing him up. Ralph V. Clampit echoed President Conant's stand by pointing out that the spirit of allegiance to the United States must be voluntary if we were to have patriotism...
...trio walking into Jim's place after the beating administered to Yale Saturday night were discussing the meet and the principal star, and the hysteria which had been aroused was well summed up by one of them when he said, "Boy, I'm telling you, Hutter is next to God tonight." He was probably not the only one who would have said just about the same thing, for Harvard was more emotionly aroused after that clash than they have been since the already historical 14-14 tie with Princeton...