Word: overwork
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Last week, in the thick of these revelations, the Quartermaster Corps's Brigadier General Charles D. Hartman was relieved from duty. He was no scapegoat, said the War Department, but a man who was sick from overwork. Assigned to plug the holes in Army construction was the Corps of Engineers' Lieut. Colonel Brehon B. Somervell, who had done a standout job as New York City's WPA Administrator. Air Corps construction was snatched bodily away from the dusty, tape-bound Quartermaster Corps and handed over to the Engineers...
...symptoms he had experienced gave him added evidence for a new theory of angina pectoris: that the bad actors in angina are the adrenal glands. The adrenals, which cap each kidney, are "second-wind" glands, spill forth energy-producing juices in time of stress. When certain sensitive individuals overwork, or get an emotional shock, their adrenals speed up to feverish pitch. The excess adrenalin tightens the arteries leading from lungs to heart, deprives the heart of oxygen just when it is most needed. Such temporary smothering. Dr. Raab believes, produces the stabbing spasms of angina...
...pancreas, which secrete insulin, a hormone essential for carbohydrate digestion; 2) the anterior pituitary. Latest medical theory is that somehow the pituitary hormone, working overtime, stimulates the islands of Langerhans to febrile activity. First they pour forth enormous quantities of insulin; later their cells become exhausted, die from overwork...
Died. Walter Connolly, 53, beloved stage and screen actor, whose procession of whimsical and mellow characters mirrored himself; of a heart attack induced by overwork; in Hollywood. After 23 years on Broadway (The Late Christopher Bean, Uncle Vanya), he went to Hollywood in 1932, thereafter had more work than he could handle...
...marital monotonies. For reasons which the picture never clears up, Alice Faye is cast as Lillian Russell. Queues of top-hatted gentlemen, roomfuls of roses, $15,000 trinkets sent her anonymously by Diamond Jim Brady fail to dent her indomitable domesticity. When Husband No. 1 (Don Ameche) dies of overwork writing an operetta for her, Singer Russell marries Henry Fonda. He has been waiting in the wings all the while, never gets up courage to ask until the end of the picture. In between are the awkward love makings of hippopotamic Diamond Jim Brady (Edward Arnold), who walks through...