Word: jagging
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Louisiana's roly-poly John Overton objected: a sudden time jag would cause him to miss his favorite radio commentator (Lowell Thomas), and foul up the delivery schedule of his milkman...
...simple-mindedness of the story is saved once in a while by Steinbeck's incidental touches. His chapters on Alice's solitary jag and on Camille's tired parrying of Louie, a diffident but brutal tinhorn Don Juan, are clever little stories in themselves. He writes with delicacy of the blundering stratagems and satisfactions of an adolescent mechanic called Pimples. But in theme and design the novel is a disappointing piece of second-rate, back-to-the-bulls fiction. Moreover, Steinbeck writes carelessly. Mrs. Pritchard has never known a day's pain on page...
...blatant columns of type, cartoons and pictures, Hearst's New York Journal-American last week went on a seven-day sentimental jag. Occasion: the golden anniversary of William Randolph Hearst's brash invasion of the New York newspaper field. Like any 50-year-old celebrating a birthday (see above), the Journal remembered just what it wanted to about the good old days...
...Most of the pills are barbiturates, which do not cause drug addiction. Some doctors avoid giving them if possible, as they can produce a pretty good jag, and neurotics or psychotic people can develop a sort of addiction. But many other doctors feel that any harm in sleeping pills is slight compared to their benefits, during mental or physical emergencies...
...when the jag wore off, the jitters came back. Dr. Masserman then gave them, at mealtimes, a choice of plain milk or milk laced with 5% alcohol (in a cocktail glass). After a few days or weeks, most of the neurotic cats learned that the alcoholic milk made them feel better, invariably chose the cocktail. Dr. Masserman, who can put two & two together, deduced from this fact that the alcohol evidently removed their inhibitions and dulled their senses, making them less sensitive to shocks. He found that usually he could cure their taste for liquor only by curing their neuroses...