Word: breakdowns
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...from running errands for a scrimping haberdasher to running the business of his own sterling Emporium. Make Wannamacy-or William Watling- quaint as well as Rotarian, eccentric as well as honest. A terse, explosive talker. When he is old, give him a struggle to keep his winnings, a nervous breakdown in the crisis. That gets sympathy. It will be more easily visualized if you locate the Emporium in London. Your love theme will be Watling's daughter, who should have been his son, and the amiable loafer of whom she makes a keen business...
Died. Judge Charles L. McKeehan, 49, of the U. S. District Court, onetime member of the law firm of Roberts, Montgomery & MeKeehan, of which Owen J. Roberts is the senior partner; in Philadelphia, of bronchitis, accompanied by a nervous breakdown...
...Senator Reed Smoot, taken ill in the Senate, left the floor and physicians were called. "A severe attack of indigestion," they diagnosed and he was sent home. Later, the diagnosis was changed to "breakdown- two weeks complete rest necessary...
...Percy Stickney Grant, one-time rector of the Church of the Ascension, made the biggest news contribution of all. The newspapers learned that he had been forced to repair to a hospital, the victim of a nervous breakdown. It was known that Dr. Grant had been in an extremely nervous condition when he resigned his pastorate last June, and the cause of the breakdown was thought to be a recurrence of an old ailment, anemia...
...newspapers, however, spoke of another cause. While the Times, World, and even the gum-chewers' Mirror dwelt only upon the diluted condition of Dr. Grant's blood, the Herald-Tribune joined with the gum-chewers' Daily News in suggesting that the breakdown was due in some part to the strain occasioned by Dr. Grant's efforts to break himself of an attachment for one Nelly Kelly, unfortunate female whom Dr. Grant had befriended, employed as housemaid, then loved. Both the Herald-Tribune and the News, each in its own manner, de voted several columns to accounts of this affair...