Word: overwrought
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...however, he tried-and failed-to become a Progressive. In 1912, capitalizing on the fact that he was Wisconsin's hero, he angled for a Progressive nomination for the Presidency, to run against William Howard Taft. Naively he invited Teddy Roosevelt to back him. One evening in an overwrought condition he addressed a newspaper publishers' banquet in Philadelphia. He began by abusing the privileged classes, went on to abuse the Press, completely lost his head and launched into a meaningless tirade. Practically suffering a nervous breakdown, he repeated whole passages of his speech. After he had spoken...
...teacher, that the Fraulein (Dorothea Wieck) has given her a chemise. Of this the principal makes such a scandal that the child goes to kill herself by jumping from the top of the staircase well. The other children drag her back in time. The final scene, in which the overwrought children gather around the young Fraulein, is made the symbol of the harsh old principal's spiritual defeat, the prediction of old Germanv's death...
Stocks rose in Stockholm last week as the Swedish Treasury and private banks pooled $30,000,000 to tide over a leading Swedish bank hard hit by the suicide of overwrought Ivar Kreuger, president of the Swedish Match Trust (Kreuger & Toll). Next day Swedish stocks upped again as the Diet extended for another month the Kreuger & Toll moratorium...
...Alton, high & dry on the mudflats of Hawaii's Pearl Harbor, was the prison home all last week of a nervous and overwrought woman and three calm and comforting men, all held for murder. The prisoners: Mrs. Granville Roland Fortescue, middle-aged Washington socialite; Lieut. Thomas Hedges Massie, U. S. N., her young son-in-law, and E. J. Lord and Albert Orrin Jones, naval enlisted men. The charge: they had kidnapped and murdered a Hawaiian named Joe Kahahawai, accused, with four others of mixed blood, of raping young Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie (TIME, Jan. 18). Arrested fortnight...
Three-quarters of the audience jumped to its feet, bellowed approval. When the noise subsided Governor Sterling lumbered up to address the overwrought crowd...