Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Mrs. Elizabeth Knox Lansdowne, 74, mother of the late Commander Zachary Lansdowne of the Shenandoah; at Greenville, Ohio, of chronic heart trouble and gradual nervous collapse. Slight and frail, weighing not more than 80 pounds, Mrs. Lansdowne collapsed on the afternoon of Sept. 3, when two old neighbors broke the news to her of the Shenandoah disaster that morning...
...Before taking Chiropractic and Electric Treatments, I was so nervous that nobody could sleep with me. After taking six treatments anybody can sleep with...
...Wood, William Howard Taft, W. Cameron Forbes (former Governor General), General James G. Harbord, General Hugh E. Scott, Martin Egan (of J. P. Morgan & Co.). The appeal for 1,800 needy mestizo children, as they are called, said: "These children certainly are worth saving. Generally of a high-strung, nervous temperament, and rather emotional, their blood characteristics appear very prominently. They have initiative and imagination, which are wholly lacking in the native. You never mistake them. Their light hair, blue eyes, and clean-cut American features are too evident. The girls,, i if educated, are particularly sought as wives...
Relative stability and prosperity in general business continue, with a tendency to watch the money markets for signs of overexpansion or overenthusiasm. As yet, however, the money market gives little or no sign of such developments or the anticipation of them. Nervous stock traders bandy rumors of a rise in the Reserve rate, but nothing happens...
...famed comedienne, creator of "tough girl" roles, actress in 40 production* during a career of 38 years in which she appeared with numberless celebrities, including Edwin Booth, Maude Adams, Lew Fields, George Arliss, etc., etc., etc., etc.; at her home in Hollis, L. I., of complications following a nervous breakdown seven months ago, while under contract to appear in Sunny, which opened (see Page 00) in Manhattan last week...