Word: symptoms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...incident will remain one of the year's outstanding examples of the wrong way to meet an extreme business emergency. Enlightened business will probably view it as one of the results of the lack of organized planning in a period of over-expansion. Economists may view it as another symptom of the passing of Old King Coal. Sociologists may attribute its extremity to the lack of education in the district in which it occurred. In the meantime the Press will be diffident, the miners will die, and Mr. Dreiser will live in the hearts of his countrymen. In the meantime...
...Vagabond has noticed an alarming symptom cropping out every now and again amongst the students. It is particularly bad at this time of year. He knows the old gag of Tennyson's about "In the Spring" and all the awful things that happen then, but did not the same old rhymster say that there was no joy but calm. He did. And the two are not compatible. The Vagabond has always been a batchelor for woman would restrict the carefree, wandering life such as his. He has patiently borne with the feministic foibles of his followings for he understands that...
...Bulgakov has been previously warned that his profound cerebrations will unseat his reason, that he has ''a little devil in his mind." A prime symptom: His astounding fondness for a caged orangutan which he subjects to a minute character-analysis. After his pet orangutan dies and Mr. Bulgakov pays a visit to the novelist's wife, up pops the devil. The scientist feigns madness (a circumstance which will extenuate his crime), kills the lady's husband with a very heavy ash tray. Then follows Mr. Bulgakov's big scene, with a stage entirely to himself...
...Vagabond is feeling particularly uneasy this morning, but to determine the cause of this mental restlessness would probably not tax the genius of a psychologist unduly. It is a preliminary symptom of that dread disease common to most dwellers in this academic atmosphere, namely Cantabrigophobia...
...Vagabond who has never taken anything in his life but other people's time, and not so much of that, was therefore mildly surprised to hear that the old Philosophy A examinations managed to get through the Widener customs down by the turnstiles. This appears to be just another symptom of overemphasis of examinations. Outside of the repulsive enthusiasm that must be necessary in order to read one of the beastly things through, actually to get close enough to swipe one seems especially bad taste. Of course: "de gustibus...