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

When two minutes have elapsed, and still neither of them offers any information, he grows grave, and whispers rather to himself than them, the one word, "Hysterics?"

From Molly Bawn by Hamilton, Margaret Wolfe

Hysterics and prolonged and repeated fits of tears soon lose their effect, and, at the last, a half-pitying contempt is their only result.

From Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society by Cooke, Maud C.

Hysterics come on by paroxysms—hence they are called hysterical fits.

From Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children by Chavasse, Pye Henry