Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cause you any mental effort to read "The Nervous Wreck". I strongly suspect, in fact, that it didn't cause the author any mental effort to write it. Probably he just started writing and wrote easily on, letting the plot unfold itself as it saw fit. That was the way with Henry Williams, alias "The Wreck". When he started out in his flivver, he just went nowhere in particular wherever chance took him. And Sally, being his sole passenger (and a very delightful one, too, I hasten to add). Sally, having really very little choice in the matter, just went...
Then the fun begins. Horace is discharged, for practicing his psychology on his department boss; Mr. Actopel has a nervous breakdown as the result; and Gordon is expelled from college for cheating in an examination. The disruption in the house supplies the necessary push to Ruth. Still languid and emotionally listless, she goes off to White Sulphur Springs with Raleigh...
...NERVOUS WRECK-A most diverting rumpus incident to the invasion by an Eastern hypochondriac of the open spaces of the West...
...NERVOUS WRECK-Slapstick rattling against the ribs of the determined valetudinarian...
...NERVOUS WRECK-Showing the influence of custard pie movies on the stage. Furiously funny farce about convalescence by necessity...