Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Foreigners remember M. Deschanel chiefly because-on May 24, 1920-he leaned from a window of the Presidential train, fell out clad in pajamas, suffered a nervous breakdown, resigned the Presidency on September...
...consecutive cases of illness among London school teachers. She finds that the women were absent for illness twice as long as were the men of the same occupational groups. The difference was not due to maladies peculiar to women, but included those such as common colds, influenza, lung infections. Nervous diseases incapacitated women three times as much as men. But rheumatism and diseases of the joints affected both sexes in almost equal numbers. Against these facts is the strange one that the death rate for London men school teachers is twice as high as for the women. "In some paradoxical...
...small red bull dashes around a bend on a frozen river pulling the lead trace of a sledge, a husky dog snapping at his hocks, a" nervous German prospector clinging to the baggage. ... A polar she-bear defends her cubs. . . . An Indian child and crone slay a swimming moose with a hand-ax. . . . A cunning wolf robs fishnets. . . . An Indian tries to sell his frozen baby as dogfood. ... A pickerel attacks a gull. ... A starving fisher outwits a porcupine. . . . An old man enters a shed to feed 18 unchained lynxes. . . . An Indian lad fills his dead father's post...
Dictator-Marshal Pilsudski left Warsaw a fortnight ago, ostensibly to "take the cure" at a sanatorium for nervous diseases in Druskieniki on the Lithuanian frontier. Rumors spread that the Marshal's notoriously irresolute brain was tottering. Then his personal jingoist news organ Armed Poland flaunted a demand that Poland seize from Germany the territories of Ermeland, Stettin, Oppeln and Breslau, "because the Treaty of Versailles has done Poland an injustice by not granting her the ancient Polish frontier of 1772." Straightway it was rumored that Pilsudski, super-melodramatist, had feigned illness that he might secretly view the terrain...
...Lord's Prayer, the Creed, the Decalogue, two short prayers in Latin, his own name, motto, day of the month, year of the Lord, and reign of the Queen (Elizabeth). Nor did any of these know that such skill in forming minute letters is often a sign of nervous disease...