Word: hysterias
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...have never seen so little accomplished in a relative period as during this session. This time last year we had passed all the appropriation bills. I can tell in one word what this Congress has done-nothing. The reason for it is that the radical bloc and the investigation hysteria have tied up the Senate. . . . The result will be that there will be no railroad or farm legislation. We may be able to get through tax reduction and immigration bills. It does not look as if any other bills will pass outside of the appropriation measures." Senator La Follette, Insurgent...
...volunteer the information that Americans are a lawless lot. Lawless, forsooth Americans are the most law-ridden, law-encumbered people on the earth. With frenzied politicians catering first to the prejudices of one group having the natural breadth and average intelligence of a CroMagnon man and again to the hysteria of some other group with somewhat the same qualifications, a maze of laws has been constructed which is impossible to respect if it is understood and still more impossible to obey if it is not understood. To make the situation a little worse, those laws which are commonly admitted...
...Association of America at a dinner in Manhattan to hiss me when I declared for tax reduction and soldier bonus too. Said I: 'They hissed and booed, blatted and squealed like a barnyard filled with frightened cattle, geese and swine. It is a most interesting example of mass hysteria. I never more enjoyed a clinic in mental nervous diseases. . . Children who act one-tenth as bad are punished...
...Playgoer is concerned. But its effectiveness, judged by that reliable criterion, its reception by the audience, deserves no little admiration. By means of thoroughly adequate scenery and "props", and the services of the old West Indian, "Mammy" Pleasant, an extremely advantageous current of excitement and hysteria is set up, which needs only the slamming of a door or the tolling of a bell to produce instant uproar,--not only on the stage but off. Occasional periods of silence on the stage are filled with the giggles and titters of the more emotional members of the audience, often swallowing up some...
Professor Albert Moeil of Berlin, who says that marathon dancing is a form of " mass hysteria," anim-adverts thus: "Such mass hysteria occurs periodically. The present dance marathon is comparable to the dance mania in the middle ages which was followed by flagellantism- monks and others whipping themselves as penitents...