Word: insomnia
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...reads a scene, then plays it. Upshot: a maelstrom of slapstick, song, blackout. episodes, old gags, new gags, confusion. That much of it is truly comic is testimony to the fact that Comedian Fields is one of the funniest men on earth. Whether he is offering a cure for insomnia ("Get plenty of sleep"), refusing a bromo ("couldn't stand the noise"), nasally vocalizing ("chickens have pretty legs in Kansas"), meticulously blowing the head off an ice cream soda, Fields is a beautifully timed exhibit of mock pomposity, puzzled ineffectualness, subtle understatement and true-blue nonchalance...
...love affair which ended bruisingly. He had insomnia. He worried about his money. His humdrum associates, his stupid wife, his monotonous life suffocated him. Gasping for freedom and solitude, he decided to seize them forthrightly, converted all his securities into cash and disappeared...
...person in four can cure insomnia or stuttering by autohypnotic resolve to go to sleep or talk glibly. And he can produce a "will to study" or a "will to work...
...providing against the future. In the spring they undergo physical mutations. The eyes intensify, the skin becomes red-glowing purple; they gather in frenzy at the trading posts and copulate day & night "in a sort of delirium, in exhaustible and insatiable." In summer they wander miserably, plagued with insomnia, sleep where they drop from exhaustion. To the "severely magnificent winter months" and their terrific hardships they are perfectly adapted. Then they become the most cheerful, convivial people de Poncins had ever known...
...right on that score. (Normal adult blood pressure: 110 to 150.) He also means that the pressure in your arteries will drive up a column of mercury 130 millimetres high, or a column of water about five feet ten inches high. Hypertension, or high blood pressure, causes headaches, dizziness, insomnia, leads eventually to hardened arteries and overburdened hearts. Hypertension kills more people a year-some 375,000 in the U. S. -than cancer. Specialists call patients with high blood pressure "hypertensives." Dr. Irvine H. Page did not bother with these ABCs of the malady when last week he delivered...