Word: neuroticisms
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To diagnose Shirley Tapp's state, doctors and psychiatrists used various words adding up to much the same thing-"hysteria," "mental anesthesia," "self-hypnosis," "a neurotic's struggle with reality." Because the girl was able to perform the feat of holding her arms upraised for 40 minutes when...
Exclusive in only the most metaphorical sense, the story also concerns itself with the efforts of a star reporter (Stuart Erwin) to track down the racketeers; the professional vagaries of a tippling public prosecutor (Franchot Tone), and his shilly-shallying with two young ladies (Madge Evans, Louise Henry); the vocational...
Practically every way extant of thumbing the nose at outraged respectability is resorted to at one time or another in "She Married Her Boss," and all the things you've wanted to do but couldn't (such as throwing bricks through department store windows) are done. Vicarious satisfaction and a...
Peoples, as well as individuals, under the influence of suggestions like these, may become neurotic. They may be carried away by hallucinations and delusions, thus involving themselves in adventures perilous to their own and other nations' safety.
Moving in these circles, dividing his time between Italy and England, Julian learned to look upon the monarchs of Europe as insane, upon European society as doomed, struggled to maintain his belief in human reason in a world irrational and lost. Zena suddenly left him. In England he met suffragettes...