Word: melancholia
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...Napoleon's Nose, Transformed into a Pregnant Woman, Strolling His Shadow with Melancholia amongst Original Riiins...
Tallulah Bankhead, an actress who revels in free speech ,but suffers "depression and melancholia" when she is misquoted, came around to admitting that she sometimes prefers misquotations. Unnerved after an unexpected mass interview with a dozen reporters in Manhattan's Stork Club, she confided to Columnist Leonard Lyons: "I suffer less when it's only the Times and the Herald Tribune, because then I know that if I should say 'godammit,' they would report that I had said 'good gracious...
...North Granville, N.Y., ended up as president of the billion-dollar First National Bank of New York, after being a reporter, teacher, soldier, bureaucrat, lawyer, diplomat; by his own hand (gunshot); on the lawn of the farm-summer estate where he grew up. He left notes blaming his melancholia: "Except for this mental depression, I have everything to live for. . . . Sorry to be a nuisance this...
...experiences that almost maniac desire for activity that from now on will alternate continually with melancholia and depression." He tries to hang himself with his belt. The job is too unpleasant. He begins to feel the true weight of "utter, bleak silence. It is only in prisons that air is so deaf...
...been a bewildering trial. Allegedly ridden with involutional melancholia, depressive psychosis, and heart disease, Hoppy sucked cough drops to stave off a cold. His alternate moans and mumbles kept the jury awake during eight weeks of corporate figures, which few could follow. The court stenographer admitted that his "mind had lost its continuity." Defense Attorney Fred A. Ironside Jr. owned to the same complaint. So confused was the court at times that even Howard Hopson smiled...