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Hysteria. A hysterical person may show every physical sign of every disease that ever afflicted mankind. A hysterical virgin may swell up as if she is about to bear a baby. A hysterical man's hand may shrivel as if palsied. Amnesia is a form of hysteria...
...relief. If we are satisfied with relief alone, we shall never achieve economic reconstruction. If those on public works are treated on a relief basis, every objective of public works will be defeated. Morale will be lowered, not restored; wages will go down, not up; purchasing power will shrivel, not expand; business will be demoralized, not stabilized. The wage policy of the New Deal will be thrown into reverse, and the business machine will be driven back into the deepest trough of depression...
...seen as an ingenuous gamin, pigeontoed, stealing sweets and spinning an incredible yarn about her eventful life, which includes the experience of motherhood. Then she is the wise little gnome keeping willful Sebastian Sanger, her lover, from taking his brother Caryl's girl. She seems to lose stature, shrivel up with unhappiness as Sebastian's mistreated wife. And her little body expands miraculously with an almost majestic grief in the short scene following her baby's death. Back with Sebastian again, she has metamorphosed into a stoic, middle-aged housewife...
...witches shrivel so quickly on the gallows that preachers find it convenient to stand by nodding sagely the while...
...fallen to 442,000,000 bu. In Washington these were dry statistics but in the Midwest, disastrous facts. In North Dakota, which had barely an inch of rain in four months, there was no grass for cattle. Farmers tramped their dusty fields watching their dwarfed stand of gram shrivel and perish. A baking sun raised temperatures to 90°, to 100°. And still no rain fell. Water was carted for miles for livestock. Towns rationed their water supplies. In Nebraska the State University agronomist gloomily predicted that many fields would not yield over 5 bu. of wheat per acre...