Word: mania
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...residents were steeped in the lore of lotteries. From there it spread into the adjacent colored quarter, where it has kept a large part of the population poor ever since. Metropolitan Life has had trouble with wholesale lapsing of insurance policies throughout Harlem from the beginning of the numbers mania. The game has spread far beyond the borders of Harlem under the high-pressure promotion of the numbers hawkers, who have enlisted a salesman in nearly every second-rate cigar and drug store, widened their distribution to include porters, office boys, taxi drivers, elevator operators...
...show whose clientele was made up mostly of skiing sophisticates. Indirect effect of Herr Schneider's three-week stay in the U. S., before going back to St. Anton for the start of the semester, was to aggravate New York's skiing neurosis to the point of mania. Owner Horace Stoneham of the New York Giants planned to turn his baseball park into a wintersports paradise by building a ski-slide from the top of the grandstand to the outfield, installing a toboggan run. As an improvement on snow trains, Saks-Fifth Avenue-which last year installed...
Dali. Artist Dali was born in Figueras near Barcelona in 1904, as a child developed a strong persecution mania and a wholehearted admiration for the works of his friend and countryman, Pablo Picasso. Salvador Dali entered the Academy in Madrid, was quickly expelled for insubordination. As an art student he reached Paris in 1927 when surrealism had yet to make any headlines but was the talk of the Montparnasse cafes...
...actually means an eyesight defect resulting in poor vision at night, but for the purposes of Author Gordon Sherry (a pseudonym) it refers to eyes which can see well in the dark but must be protected by thick glasses from the light of day. The monster's homicidal mania leaps up at the time of the full moon. Working in the dark, he takes off his glasses, puts on gloves, chokes the victim to death, cuts her up with artistic pride, removes her eyes. He is exposed at last by an heroic and implausibly clever woman who turns...
...much of this supposed gospel of leisure. A true gospel of leisure will say that much may be found in work itself. . . . Vigor belongs to spirituality and indolence belongs to sin. Since when has youth come to demand security and ceased to cry just for opportunity? . . . A mania has seized men to get things and do things easily. . . . God alone can change human lives and the church must learn to put this truth into practice...