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Ever since slack-chinned Prince Nicholas of Rumania became a chronic reckless driver (TIME, Nov. 4, 1929, et seq.), he has been a favorite subject for speculative diagnosis with the Viennese psychiatrists, who gather nightly to drink coffee with whipped cream at the Cafe Siller on the Franz Josef Quai. Many and ingenious have been the explanations of why H. R. H. groin-kicked the driver of a taxi with which he had collided (TIME, Dec. 30). First Viennese psychiatrist to issue his ideas to the press was Dr. Erwin Wexburg...
...Chronic complaint of every southern cotton planter: his inability to keep Negroes working steadily on his place. He advances money for food and clothing to his black hands, only to have them run away before they have worked off their debt. If he attempts to hold them by force, he violates the anti-slavery amendment, is guilty of peonage...
Citizen Coolidge: Oh, that's chronic with them...
...fight on Mr. Hughes commenced slowly, almost apologetically, at the instigation of Nebraska's Senator Norris. Gathering momentum, it quickly drew in Idaho's Senator Borah, chronic complainant. Within the year Senator Borah had opposed President Hoover on farm relief, on the tariff, on prohibition enforcement personnel, on "freedom-of-the-seas" at the London Naval Conference. It was no great leap from loyalty for him to object to President Hoover's choice as Chief Justice. One by one other Republican Progressives began to rally against Mr. Hughes. Such assorted Democratic Senators as Virginia's Glass...
...Joyce's language, says Ogden: "The intensive, compressive, reverberative infixation; the sly, meaty, oneiric logorrhoea, polymathic, polyperverse; even the clangorous calembour, irresponsible and irrepressible, all conjure us to penetrate the night mind of man, that kaleidoscopic recamera of an hypothecated Unconscious, jolted by some logophilous Birth-trauma into chronic serial extension." Example from Joyce: ''The Ondt was a welltall fellow, raumybult and abelboobied, bynear saw altitudinous wee a schelling in kopfers. He was sair sair sullemn and chairmanlooking when he was not making spaces in his psyche, but, laus! when he wore making spaces on his ikey...