Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a little county seat in New Jersey called Mays Landing. It was 26 years ago that a Negro working his way through a western university had a nervous breakdown. So he gave up his education and went to Mays Landing where he opened a barber shop. Business was good. After a time he abandoned the barber shop to continue as a tradesman in tobacco, candy and other small goods. Nobody paid much attention to him. He was practically the only Negro in town. He did not go to Church, in fact he said he was not a Christian...
...100th from the pen of Owen Davis. As a matter of fact he has written 130 odd, and become financially at least, the most successful of our native dramatists. Among his plays are the appalling melodramas of the early days (Nellie the Beautiful Cloak Model), riotous farces (The Nervous Wreck) and the sound and moving Pulitzer Prize Play, Icebound. This latest falls into the second category...
Like Mr. Davis' last farce, Trie Nervous Wreck, the play employs Otto Kruger in the lead. Mr. Kruger and Victor Moore (back from vaudeville) illustrate the story of two ingenious crooks who invade a health farm of the wealthy. When they are through, the inmates are not so wealthy. The spectators have meanwhile enjoyed themselves boisterously...
...Before each game administer drugs and powerful stimulants to the men, so that their nervous energy will shoot up to the highest possible pitch...
...petition was sent in. Benito read his statement to the scattering of correspondents present-mostly Germans and Italians. They reported that he seemed nervous and unable to make himself quite coherent, although he read from manuscript...