Word: symptomized
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...this, however, is but a symptom of a larger disorder--the undue expansion of our public egos. While no two people will agree as to just what constitutes "balanced" personality, all will admit that the over-emphasis of one or more of our selves is dangerous. We, as a nation, pay too much stress on "what the public thinks" about us; we indulge too freely our inherent propensity for being in the public eye. Unfortunately, the cure is not so simple as the diagnosis. Only the wide-spread recognition of the injurious effects of too much "publicity" will result...
...more congenial friends among the mummies. Certainly, if Premier Nitti advice were followed, many of our present difficulties would soon disappear. Life would be much easier if we could all recognize a joke when we saw it, even it were officially classed as an "international problem" or a "grave symptom of social upheaval." The worries of the General Public have reduced him to the pitiably bedraggled state in which he usually appears in our newspaper cartoons. To him we recommend Premier Nitti's remedy, "guaranteed to effect a speedy recovery." In good humor is to be found the cure...
...national service and everything we learn here is a drop in the bucket we must fill before we can become officers. There have been times when the thermometer was around zero and bed seemed more attractive than Soldiers Field; we have of weakness, but the systematic skipping is the symptom of a D or an F man. A habit of this kind grows, and when such men get their chance to become officers they will not only know less than their companions in arms, but they will also have bad habits to conquer...
Much has appeared in our newspapers recently to the effect that the belligerent Allies are getting thoroughly tired of the war. Correspondents who are supposedly expert diagnosticians of national and international ailments attribute this symptom to the state of affairs in Russia. They feel that the present opposition of the Slav to this war and the utter chaos in his country are crystalizing anti-militaristic feeling in the other nations, and that this situation may bring about a speedy peace...
...prices have appeared in the quotations of the boards of trade, and a great many people, including not a few members of Congress, have not unnaturally blamed the grain speculator for them. Most people look askance at speculation anyhow, and not everyone realizes that speculative prices are commonly a symptom, rather than a cause, of disagreeable facts...