Word: shell-shocked
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...RICHEST MAN?Edward Shanks ?Knopf ($2.00). Off on a holiday to Italy, suffering from shell-shock, a professor meets a soldier of fortune. Together, they discover a super-man? "the richest man in the world." "He is not one of the millionaires you read about in the newspapers: he is the man behind them?the biggest of them all. He has forests in Canada, ruby mines in the Urals, radium deposits in Brazil, hotels in Japan. There are trust and holding companies and secret agreements. It is a wonderful affair!" This fantastic creature is the storm-centre of startling...
...just originated this custom, took his cue from the healers of nervous disorders, it is quite in accord with principles which they know and apply -- sometimes with music itself. In war hospitals it was found that quiet music had a most beneficial effect on certain cases of shell-shock, especially when someone could be found to perform it who understood how to make it the vehicle of a personal influence of quietude...
...must now have economic democracy for the twentieth century as we have had political democracy in the nineteenth century. If our ideal dies, the state which is organized to protect that ideal becames a mere shell." Mr. White ended his talk by an optimistic note, declaring that conservatism and reaction so evident now following the war are passing phases of the world's shell-shock and war-weariness, and that all the altruism and all the self-scarce which America put into the war will be regenerated and come to flower and fruit in the coming decades...
...given the first of a series of lectures on first-aid by Dr. E. A. Darling '90 last night at the regular lecture hour. Dr. Darling discussing his subject in general by way of introduction, described in detail the manner of treating persons suffering from shock, under which category "shell-shock," the most frequent disability of the present war, is included. The emergency method of dealing with hemorrhages and simple fractures was also explained. Dr. Darling has divided the types of injuries under the common classification of those in which the skin is not broken and of those in which...