Word: hysterias
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...Lelong: Gowns of intricate cut, moulding and revealing the curved lines of the figure, executed in subdued light shades. Said M. Lelong, last week: "Woman returns to the elegant, poised, long-limbed, distinguished figure. She abandons with relief the bony, jazzy flapper figure, evoked by the aftermath of War hysteria...
...Mexico City the emaciated corpse of General Arnulfo Gomez, executed last fortnight (TIME, Nov. 14), was laid, amid great weeping and hysteria, in its last resting place. At the same time what purported to be the true report of the manner of his capture and death was circulated. Surrounded by the troops of General Jose Gonzales Escobar, General Gomez, making a futile effort to draw his gun, fell on the slippery ground. Seeing that his game was up, he surrendered, and, fearing that he was about to be summarily shot, begged for his life, offering to take any punishment other...
...local retaliation is possible. Widener Library at 10 o'clock of almost any evening except during the mid-semester hysteria is a scene of quite repose. When the lights momentarily go down as signal for closing they conceal possibly a score of souls in utter darkness. In the cubicles of the stacks there are others, but the General and Lower Reading rooms exhibit the hurly burly of a deserted village. Only the Farnsworth Room may be said to be adequately occupied...
Unlike most who have made this covenant with God, Robert J. White, Massachusetts district attorney, remembered it after he recovered from an operation last year. With the dark hysteria of fever forgotten, he still could sense the hot languor of his sickroom, he still could feel the curious animation which had come when he handled the holy relic a priest had brought him. Yet he hesitated to fulfill his obligation until, when his mother died, he felt that God was frowning at him for forgetting a miracle...
Pastor John Roach Straton hastened to write out a 5,000-word apologia pro sua vita. There was no Pentecostalism rife in Calvary Bapist Church; the woman of Lindbergh Monday was a victim of the general Manhattan hysteria or was ill; the five deacons were fractious and had better have resigned; they were "making a grandstand play for publicity." He concluded: "In closing I wish to say that I was duly elected as the engineer of this Gospel train here at Calvary Baptist Church. And throughout the ten years of my leadership the overwhelming majority of the officers...