Word: mania
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...burr soon made him a popular, villain. His first cinema, in 1912, was a talkie: an experimental version of Faust made at the Edison laboratories. His whiskers became really famed in the U. S. after Tol'able David, in which he was a Kentucky feudist with a homicidal mania. When he heard that $1,000 salaries for actors were common in Hollywood; Ernest Torrence said: "Talk like that makes a Scotchman intoxicated." He had just completed I Cover the Waterfront, started home to visit his brothers in Edinburgh when he died. Critics considered his posthumous performance...
...since the banks closed, and we would have been forced off if the bank holiday had not been declared. On March 1 there was a gold reserve of $1,500,000,000; on March 4 that reserve was only $300,000,000. That loss was caused partly by the mania that swept the country for converting all one's money into gold and partly by the action of the Bank of England, which consisted of turning its investments in this country into gold, to be kept in trust at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York...
Divorced, Film Actor Maurice Chevalier; and Yvonne Vallee Chevalier; by a double divorce disallowing alimony to Mme Chevalier; in Paris. Onetime Parisian co-dancers, 1927 "lovebird" couple. they split on Chevalier's Hollywood-mania, Mme Chevalier's "extreme"' jealousy...
...will lick cold objects and other animals, but not be disposed to bite. There is no dread of water at any time. "Hydro-phobia" is a misnomer. The dog will drink as long as it can, until constriction of the throat sets in. The second stage of rabies is mania or nervous excitement. The dog may jump in the air, snap at invisible objects. A peculiar, unmistakeable howling begins, not so fast and frequent as the yapping and whining of running fits. The dog is still unlikely to bite persons it knows but will soon begin to "run mad." first...
...than enough facts for the reader to form his own conclusions. The most serious error is the author's idea that it was a temporary aberration which has passed now. He traces the development of romance in the common man's life through the rise of the hero-worship mania but concludes that it is dying out--the book was written before the spectacle of the Lindbergh baby incident...