Word: symptomized
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...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...
...borrowed $500, paid it to a "fixer," got nothing in return. To District Attorney William F. X. Geoghan of Brooklyn last week went the affidavits, with full confessions by President Izzicson and four other ringmen. But The Public & The Schools was suspicious: "[Racketeering] was directly caused by the primary symptom of belief in political manipulation of the schools. The belief of political manipulation of the schools was caused by-what? Well, it is the precise answer to this question which . . . investigation has not revealed...
...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...
Then Dr. Charles Frederick Buckley, school physician, recognized Harold's rubbing poison ivy on his own face as a symptom of hypo-pituitarianism. When the pituitary gland is underdeveloped the victim is subject to convulsive seizures. These fits differ from those caused by brain infections or other cranial maldevelopments in that they are apt to be erratic and to manifest themselves viciously. They appear with adolescence. Endocrinologists have discovered that young hypo-pituitarians, if untreated, become very fat, sexually undeveloped. This boy was just beginning to manifest those marks. But five to ten grains of sheep's pituitary...