Word: insomnia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cash returns (reckoned up each year); reviews of his books (measured by inches); and the society of interesting people. After a party in London he writes: "This sort of thing is the real reward for having written a few decent books." But there were other, less pleasant rewards-headaches, insomnia, liver trouble, nervous exhaustion. At some times it "occurs" to him that he is "almost happy." At other times he writes: "Habit of work is growing on me. I could get into the way of going to my desk as a man goes to whiskey, or rather to chloral...
...alarming that his withdrawal from the Foreign Office became imperative." It must always be borne in mind," his comptroller, Major Ulick Alexander, warned the nation on Prince George's 27th birthday, "that his digestion is weak and, what perhaps is not generally known, that he suffers from insomnia" (TIME, Dec. 30, 1929) Since 1929 Prince George and Edward of Wales, chums in revelry, have sailed, golfed and danced their way around South America without seasickness, quaffed many a beaker without indigestion and stayed up so late at Fort Belvedere (their base of operations 22 mi. from London) that insomnia...
Reaching Panama, she settles in the Chorillo district, rents a hovel alongside some hundred others. She changes her name to Cherie, becomes all that the name implies. So many men of so many nationalities pass through her arms that she only thinks of them, like hurdling sheep, to keep insomnia away. The money in the hollow bed-leg rises coin by coin...
Medicine's best use for hypnotism as a therapeutic agent has been to untangle mental kinks. In peculiarly sensitive people it may ease pain and insomnia better than anything else. Some doctors have found it useful to cure stammering and seasickness. In France Dr. B. de Rachewsky treats hayfever by hypnotizing patients into a belief that pollen is no more contagious than warts...
Counsel Tibbetts exhibited copies of a magazine in which Magistrate Norris, clad in her judicial robes, urged readers to eat Fleischmann's yeast. She stated that yeast had cured her of insomnia and that- tired-feeling. Queried as to whether she had been actuated by a desire "to carry this message to the world," or by the $1,000 fee she was given for the testimonial, Judge Norris blushed vividly, lost her poise. "As I think of it now," she confessed, "it was unethical and bad form...