Word: hysterias
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After this hard-hitting, fact-marshaling speech the resigned Foreign Secretary was overwhelmed by the general House of Commons atmosphere of hysteria and tears, tottered out weeping. The appointment as his successor of Robert Anthony Eden, a handsome young man with ancestors who were Counts of the Holy Roman Empire, was the one logical move in a British fortnight of illogic. In the popular mind "Eden" stands for going whole hog against Italy, but in the House of Commons he has said that The Deal or any other arrangement acceptable to Italy, Ethiopia and the League would not be opposed...
...excellent chance of being written down in history as a statesman who wrought momentous changes in U. S. life. If he is defeated, historians will be tempted to set him down as a political monstrosity whom his country idolized for a few brief months of national hysteria. And the re-election of Franklin Roosevelt in 1936 is, most political...
...associates to get Ricardo a job in the opera company and further his amour with Rosa. To U. S. audiences which once split their sides at the Marxes, but now find them dullish, it will be good news that the brothers have some new routines. 1) Shipboard routine: Hysteria is built up by putting four people and a trunk in a cabin intended for one person .and suitcase, then bringing in stewards, manicurists, telephone repairmen, et al. 2) Landing routine: The stowaways, minus passports, cut the beards from three sleeping notables, glue them on, enjoy a public welcome until voiceless...
...created a small literary sensation, led to the dismissal of its 19-year-old author for "a breach of military discipline." While it is not a record of the horrors of War in a conventional sense, A Diary Without Dates is charged with a sense of pain, distress, hysteria, communicates the strain of War more poignantly than many a more pretentious volume. The world in which this girl matured was one where normal patterns had been broken, where men lay helpless and suffering and women carried on essential tasks, where dammed-up emotions exploded in queer bursts of affection...
...producer) is a genuine three-dimensional portrait of a complete, ruthless egotist. Mark Faber (Roland Young) got into show business simply to make a fortune. To him the theatre is just one more racket he can beat. In the course of beating it he reduces his office staff to hysteria, seduces his virginal leading lady, cuckolds his deserving brother-in-law, demoralizes his amiable wife (Mary Philips). Faber manages to commit all this emotional mayhem with unbounded arrogance, callousness and a certain amount of charm which is conveyed by witty sayings and an engaging incompetence when wrestling with a trick...