Word: adame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...despite Hitler's attempt to kill off the insane, the population of German lunatic asylums rose from 185,000 in 1923 to almost 350,000 in 1936. Nor did many of the psychiatrists recall how they had hailed recently a book (Beyond the Clinical Frontiers) by Dr. Edward Adam Strecker of the University of Pennsylvania, which put forth the theory that the Germans are victims of "mass psychoneurosis...
Died. Catherine Rzewuska Kolb-Danvin, 83, onetime Princess Radziwill; in Manhattan. Daughter of a Tsarist Army officer, she married Prince Adam Charles Radziwill, before his death was secretary to the German Empress Frederick. In the U.S. she became a prolific and much-disputed writer, drew the wrath and denials of the Soviet Embassy in 1938 when she wrote in Liberty an "interview" with Joseph Stalin hinting at a Russian-German alliance...
With the plodding thoroughness of Henry James developing a character in fourteen chapters, Playwright Robert Sherwood as director of "Adam-Had Four Sons" has made it into a psychological dissection of an upperclass family during the last war. Warner Baxter, stouter than in his matinee idol days but still a portrayer of semi-phlegmatic emotion, acts the bachelor-ed broker whose love for his housekeeper (Ingrid Bergman) is disturbed by her suspicious actions in protecting him from knowledge of the unfaithfulness of his daughter-in-law. Susan Hayward looks, as well as plays, the part of the scheming minx...
...Memoriam. In Chester, S.C., J. Foster Carter, happy that the U.S. at last contained a monument to Adam to match Paragraphist Robert Quillan's Fountain Inn, S.C., memorial to Eve, looked upon the adornment to his front yard, said that it was good...
Presiding at Friday's luncheon, Dr. Malone will award the prizes to the winners of this year's contest. Last year, Adam Yarmolinsky '43 won first prize for his essay, "The Influence of Walt Whitman on Later American Poetry...