Word: paroxysmic
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Among other avoidable causes of deafness is high flying, according to Dr. Clarence H. Smith of Manhattan. In such cases dizziness and ringing sounds may accompany the deafness. Such flyers may be "attacked in the air by a paroxysm of disabling vertigo...
...Fiorello Henry LaGuardia, is forever making speeches. No one would have paid much attention to a speech he made last week before the Women's Division luncheon of the American Jewish Congress at the Hotel Astor if the German press had not burst out after it in a paroxysm of rage prodigious even for Naziland...
Cause of Germany's paroxysm was found to be a proposal by Mayor LaGuardia that adjoining a proposed "temple of tolerance" at New York's 1939 World's Fair there be erected "a chamber of horrors" containing a figure of "that brown-shirted fanatic who is now menacing the peace of the world...
...unpleasant incident near the General Assembly's end was when Rev. Warren Elsing, 45, of Exeter, Calif., jumped out of a hotel window in a nervous paroxysm...
...Foch. It was the ghost of Foch which kept Clemenceau writing night and day until he died, perhaps hastened his death. Journalist Raymond Recouly published last year Le Memorial de Foch, flaying Clemenceau's handling of the peace conference in words allegedly quoted from Foch. In almost a paroxysm of rage, Le Tigre began to write his reply, had it complete last week except for a few pages of revision. "It is unfair of Foch!" stormed Clemenceau again and again in the last few weeks. "He is no longer here to receive my reply! . . . I am finishing it for myself...