Word: manias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...girlhood; it develops her being, shows her as a neurotic, pitifully inadequate to face life alone and yet deprived of every supporting hand. It traces her relations with her father's illegitimate children-three mulattos of varying degrees of insanity. It follows Theodosia herself through an awful period of mania. And in the end it leaves her in a pastoral security, safe enough but nevertheless forever marked by the fearful experiences through which she has passed...
...PROHIBITION MANIA-Clarence Darrow & Victor S. Yarros-Boni & Liveright ($2.50). Using the much-heralded dry arguments of Professor Irving Fisher of Yale (advanced in Prohibition at its Worst) as a tackling dummy, Authors Yarros (Chicago journalist) & Darrow (famed Chicago lawyer) endeavor to prove that the 18th amendment should be considered an outmoded though undeniably humorous fantasy. Practically all of Professor Fisher's conclusions, 38 of his charts connecting the dry law with the decrease in drunkenness and juvenile delinquency, the disappearance of disorderly houses, the reduction of deaths due to alcoholism, are demolished with an angry despatch. The book...
Mordance Hall is owned by Richard Pride, who suffers from a mania for vicarious adventure. Having exhausted all that the modern world can extend in the way of romance, he turns to the dark chamber of his mind, from which he would draw the dark memories of the past. His wife, Miriam, combines the pleasant foibles of satyriasis and astrology, while Janet, her daughter, is a nympholept. Hugh, Pride's secretary and Miriam's lover, and Sally, the West African negress, addicted to voo-doo, complete this attractive menage. But we should mention Tod, the giant police-dog, whose essentially...
...Representative Emanuel Celler of New York: ". . . Your anti-British mania has made you ridiculous in the eyes of intelligent people...
...Count Albert Apponyi of Hungary and nervous, excitable Nicolas Titulescu of Rumania. The treatment of Hungarian minorities in Rumania has long been a subject of severe dispute. Sir Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary, attempted to lay down three guiding principles for the treatment of former Hungarians now in Ru- mania by virtue of the peace treaty...