Word: hysterias
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Ptosis is an ugly ailment of the upper eyelids. The nerves and muscles which keep the lids rolled up, except during winking, blinking and sleeping, are paralyzed by heredity, disease, poison, or hysteria. Ptosis is not often curable...
...scheme, "hunger marchers" in motor trucks got under way about the country. The Chicago contingent produced a riot in Hammond, Ind. Mayor Mackey of Philadelphia advised them to "pass by" his city. Hartford closed its streets to "hunger riders." Leader Benjamin denounced the Secret Service, declared: "A vast Red hysteria is being fomented...
...beginning to put football in its place. If it over becomes fashionable for him to lose entire interest in the doings of the so-called 'Varsity in favor of personal participation in a slightly less strenuous adaptation, the game will cease to wag and the college and public hysteria will find another outlet. The steady growth of a more mature intelligence throughout the student bodies of the various schools of any intellectual and cultural importance will eventually accomplish all that the most hysterical. Viewer with Alarm could wish for, and with less fuss and attendant by-products of ennui...
...appeared as though he would veto any attempt of the Texas Legislature to prohibit cotton planting next year. Said he: "I wouldn't let a child burn itself with fire if I could prevent it. ... I have not been swept off my feet yet. There is too much hysteria in Texas and in the South." He said he feared the "Drop-a-Crop" idea would be unconstitutional. Besides, there was always the chance that Egypt, India, Russia and the other cotton-producing countries of the world would expand their production and gobble up the U. S. market if the South...
...jerks, the barks, the hysterical whoops-&-jingles. Brother Semple preached the opening sermon at nightfall, on The Death of a Sinner. He panicked the crowd, laid them in holy rolling rows. Aristocrat Lou Crawford, who had come curiously with her uncle, soon wished she hadn't. Mob hysteria laid her low, nearly scared her out of her skin. Up front in the ''straw pen" (an enclosure made safe for writhing revivalists by strewn straw) male & female sinners flopped in convulsions...