Word: overworking
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, zealous worker for the Jewish Palestine Homeland, No. 1 U. S. rabbi, collapsed from nervous indigestion and overwork at the Half Moon Hotel, Coney Island, N. Y., whence he had gone, for seclusion and rest. His attending physician announced that Rabbi Wise was "withdrawing indefinitely" from all duties, would probably not attend the Palestine conference at London...
...three years at the beginning of the century, Clifford Whittingham Beers was in hospitals and sanitoriums with a mental breakdown. It was caused by his foolish fear of being an epileptic, his overwork as a Yale undergraduate and later as an insurance clerk. Although wracked by wild illusions, his mind lucidly registered on his experiences. When he became well he had the impulse to document himself, to start a movement for the amelioration of the then unintelligently managed insane asylums. WTilliam James encouraged him. Psychiatrist Adolf Meyer invented for him the phrase "mental hygiene." Great names joined his movement...
...tenth Chief Justice of the U. S. He was dying. For a week his physicians, hopeless of his recovery, waited for his passing at any hour. But against the inevitable end he made resolute resistance. His will-to-live was strong; his affected heart, weary from a lifetime of overwork, was feeble. As his life seemed to trickle away, citizens throughout the land held their breath in sorrowful anticipation of the end of a great man whom they had honored much and loved more...
...Engineering School since 1920, died last Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock in his home at 6 Clement Circle, Cambridge. Professor Hughes was suddenly taken seriously ill on February 23, following his return from the South. He had been suffering for some time from heart disease brought on by overwork, and had planned spending a sabbatical leave of absence for the second half of this academic year in England and Scotland...
Rheumatism combined with overwork have reduced Author Joyce to near-blindness : he wears thick spectacles, sometimes a black patch over his left eye. He cannot read without a magnifying glass. When he writes, he wears a white jacket with the arms of the City of Dublin embroidered on the breast pocket; uses a large red pencil. Friends reread his manuscript to him, which he corrects many times. His proofs, too, surfer, even to the fifth or sixth revision. Domestic, shy, Joyce rarely leaves home except for the opera or to dine at the famed Trianon Restaurant. Poor most...