Word: mania
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...went there with a companion 18 months ago, and on Feb. 28 last year, apparently as a result of religious mania, shot herself in the lung after attending a Holy Year service. She recovered after her life had been in danger, and for the family's sake it was represented as an accident, but in view of what happened today the truth had better be admitted...
...mania for confession, which some say is traceable to Saint Augustine, and which none deny Rousseau made popular as means of making one's suppressed desires articulate, has seized on Lampy. The Boston Herald yesterday contained the modest "Life and Times of Lampy" written by himself...
...unwillingness of Mrs. Gubbins to give up the insurance which is being paid her for her son's death her tendency to indulge in what Mrs. Gump called "nips", Spoofy's strange mania for burglarizing anyone on the slightest pretext, and the inevitable mixup with Scotland Yard, all provide wholesome laughs a plenty...
...menace to the mental and physical welfare of the players, upon whom its long, grilling practices and tense games impose an often unbearable physical strain." Fortified by investigations into the case of a boy who was found to have played through a whole game "in a state of mania, a menace not only to himself but also to the other players," Dr. Paton feels himself justified in condemning "football hysteria" as "a producer of both physical and mental deterioration." Under its influence, he maintains, the mental life of American universities is being "lowered to the dead level of mediocrity...
...Blue Life. An ugly, shy orphan youth with money falls into the hands of a barefoot carpenter with a devilish clever mania for astonishing people. The carpenter paints dragonfish on the youth's house and tries to marry him off to a wench with fat legs. Youth escapes carpenter at the expense of his reason, which later returns with a thud...