Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lapps," Luther, says, "are a nervous class of people and would be termed neurasthenics. In one village for example, where a stick was whacked against the side of a tent, the inhabitants fainted from fright. A number of the subjects who were being measured lost consciousness while they were undergoing this simple and harmless operation...
...Seasickness, worst feeling in the world, is no respecter of persons. Bolstering the semicircular canals with earplugs helps some people. Shutting the eyes also helps, since the sympathetic nervous system is also affected by optical unsteadiness. Drinking champagne is another remedy. But the best thing of all, for seasick prince, pauper or potentate, is to surrender completely and lie down. . . . Returning to Key West from Havana on the swift cruiser Memphis, President Coolidge lay down.* Secretary Wilbur filled an engagement the President had made to address the ship's officers and crew...
...sobriety, sweetness, light. A little child shall lead them. She had to, because all the mothers and fathers went out drinking and necking even more earnestly. There lies the moral. Nice old father and mother were out getting drunk, playing naughty and picking up a nasty collection of nervous breakdowns. This is a play that no drinking mother should miss...
...believe that a program of worship has ever been devised which can turn a nervous, tired and irritable person into a devout worshipper without any effort on the part of the individual...
...This is not unseemly; his grandfather was a doctor, his father, Professor Johann Schnitzler, a once famed throat specialist. Author Arthur Schniztler studied medicine, became an M. D., lectured on ailments of the throat, at the Poliklinik in Vienna. One of his early published works was a paper on Nervous Diseases of the Voice...