Word: mania
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jazz lover. But in 1926 she was at the height of her career, making nearly $2,000 a week. Last September, still trouping but almost forgotten by the U. S. public, which has in the past three years taken to hot music with an intensity surpassing even the mania of the late 1920's, Bessie Smith died after a motor accident in Clarksdale, Miss. Last week Columbia Phonograph Co. issued a Bessie Smith Album, containing re-pressings of six of the 80-odd records she made between...
...neighbors' spy hysteria shattered not only their nerves but, for a time, their faith in the U. S. as well. Yet during that frantic period, Austrian Immigrant Ludwig Bemelmans, a 19-year-old U. S. Army recruit whose English could barely be understood, almost completely escaped the spy mania and acquired an affection for the U. S. that embraced factory landscapes, a "wondrously beautiful" prostitute and the insane. My War with the United States, a translation of his German diary, is the record of that sunny Americanization. Smiling readers will agree with Private Bemelmans' officers that the ingenuous...
...mixing fury and farce Director Whale imperils Author Remarque's poignant theme, but the screen play possesses intense, impressive street scenes. And for a few moments The Road Back illumines a grim War-wrecked civilization, lighting up in a final flash the reawakening of German military mania...
...Leverett House Thursday night photographers armed with suit cases full of flash bulbs and tiny candid cameras kept publicity hounds on their toes most of the evening in an effort to waste no longer their fragrance on the desert air. Although for this type of person the photographic mania may present no menace, to the modest, shrinking violet type it is definitely a disturbing element. Life may have been an invited guest to Leverett's party Thursday night, but to most of the other guests it was certainly unexpected. It is the forlorn hope of many, however, that when...
...when they caught up with Mrs. Rubina Hartman. A few hours after giving birth to a girl in City Hospital, Mrs. Hartman, 33, had dressed, visited friends, then gone to her home in suburban Roxbury. Nurses found the infant lying alone in Mrs. Hartman's hospital bed. No mania impelled her, the mother averred when doctor and policeman reached her. She felt well; she had work to do at home; she was going to do it; the hospital, she knew, would look after the baby and bring it to her in good time; as for bad after-effects...