hysterics
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Hysterics, of course, supply what theatre demands—words driven by emotions.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 23, 2015
New Yorker sportswriter John Tunis made a compelling argument in his 1928 book $port$: Heroics and Hysterics that America’s sporting institutions were powered by something he called The Great Sports Myth.
From The Guardian • Jun. 19, 2015
Hysterics of course, if not a sick headache.
From Tracy Park by Holmes, Mary Jane
Hysterics had given way to weeping: the tears were now streaming down the woman's face.
From The Log of a Noncombatant by Green, Horace
Hysterics are sometimes frightful to witness, but, in themselves, are not at all dangerous.
From Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children by Chavasse, Pye Henry