Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...read the Atlanta Constitution until she got sleepy and then went up to bed, taking the cat with her. She was half undressed when the gentlemen in white began breaking down her front door. They roared when, having shot their way into the bedroom, the cat confronted them, licking nervous chops, on the top of a bedpost. One man fired from the hip; the cat tumbled off the post. The woman had fainted but they revived her. Then they stripped her, beat her unconscious...
Bose Exposed. Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose of India has been causing scientific excitement with his assertions that plants have nervous systems, souls. A book giving a sympathetic account of the Hindu, his work and methods, sets forth: "The mysteries of nature are probed in Sir J. C. Bose's institute not by study of libraries or mechanical experiments, but primarily by communion with the unseen and unknown. Inspiration, imagination, intuition, vision?this is even a more romantic touch." All of which is ridiculous. "The passage from pseudo-research to the infantile fancies is an easy one."?Dr. Daniel...
...Advancement of Colored People announced that these two potent champions would press the suit of Blanche S. Brookins against the Pullman Co. and the Atlantic Coast Line Railway for damages of $25,000. The Negress charges that the defendants subjected her to "insult, mortification and injury to her nervous system and general health"; that she was a passenger in interstate commerce (having bought through accommodations from New York to Orlando, Fla.), and therefore not subject to Florida...
Died. William A. Lamed, 54, onetime (1901-02 and 1907-11) U. S. champion in lawn tennis singles; in Manhattan, by suicide with the revolver he carried in the Spanish War; following two years' nervous illness and rheumatism. Onetime Army major, he also traded on the New York Stock Exchange, selling his seat in 1922 for $98,000. Only one other U. S. tennis champion equals his seven-year title record, R. D. Sears, the first champion...
Died. Louise Vanderbilt Schieffelin Hewitt, 25, wife of Abram S. ("Chappie") Hewitt, greatgrand-daughter (maternal) of "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt; great-great-granddaughter (paternal) of John Jay; in Manhattan, by a fall or leap from her apartment window, following nervous breakdown...