Word: mania
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Glenn Curtiss Airport (of which he was operations manager), Long Island. Died. Mrs. Winifred Finlay Fosdick, wife of Lawyer Raymond Elaine Fosdick; by her own hand (pistol), after shooting her children, Susan, 15, and Raymond Elaine Jr., 10, to death in their sleep; in Montclair, N. J. Reason: homicidal mania growing out of a progressive form of paranoia for which she had been under treatment for several years. Brother of Manhattan's Pastor Harry Emerson Fosdick, Lawyer Fosdick was onetime Under Secretary General of the League of Nations, is now chief almoner to the House of Rockefeller. Died. Albert...
...existence of a basis of fact for the assertion of Professor Rogers of M. I. T. in the University Club News that extra-curricular activities no longer play so important a part in undergraduate life as they formerly did scarcely invites rebuttal. The activity mania, rampant not so many years ago, seems to have subsided with all the suddenness common to excesses, along with hazing and other manifestations of misdirected energy in the youthful. The increasing maturity of outlook of the student has taken from activities much of their previous exaggerated appeal, and placed them in their true perspective. When...
Rumanian Cheat. Somewhat less revolting than the Egyptian fraud was Rumania's election last week - for in Ru mania each party has its turn at cheating...
...synchronized almost exactly with the start of the Kentucky Derby (see above), but otherwise there was no connection between the two events. Derby Day at Yale, the day of the first big spring regatta, usually falls before Derby Day at Churchill Downs. It is a festival touched by ceremonious mania, causing juniors to add to the gaiety of fraternity houseparties the absurd and jovial dignity of top-hats, frock-coats and waistcoats with pearl buttons. Seniors rig themselves on Derby Day in the clownish regalia of sailors, goat-bearded farmers, raffish monks or intoxicated nuns. When, four years ago, this...
...Producer Belasco. As carefully as he cultivated his famed Anglican clerical costume,* Producer Belasco fostered the properties, attitudes, legends which identified him. At times he was apt to croon about himself and his profession: "I am a mother at heart." At other times he was obsessed with a persecution mania, declaiming against imaginary slanderers: "I'd like to know who started all that talk. I'm sick and tired of it. I'd kick him around the town!" Equally extravagant are the tales about him. Once he stuck a pin in Frances Starr...