Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confirmed pessimist as well as a distinguished, patient and learned anthropologist is Dr. Ernest Albert Hooton of Harvard University. Dr. Hooton doubts whether man's evolutionary status has improved appreciably since the end of the Glacial Ages, believes it will get worse unless "the reckless and copious breeding of protected inferiors" is stopped...
...Manhattan white-haired Dr, Frederick Albert Cook, 71, listing himself as an anthropologist, physician, author, journalist and lecturer, filed a damage suit for $125,000 against the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Writer Jeanette Mirsky, the Viking Press and Houghton Mifflin Co. for "discrediting" his claim to the "discovery" of the North Pole in 1908. Generally considered the master impostor of his time, jailed in 1925-30 for using the mails to defraud in connection with oil-stock swindling, Dr. Cook declared: "Before I die I must clear my good name...
Thence, I to lunch at Dunster and sate next Dr. Cline who be an anthropologist but a very pleasant fellow. And he told me mighty stories of bull-fighting in Malaga. I was quite amazed to learn nearly 1,300 bulls are killed this way in Spain every year--though very gracefully, I am told--and these be worth $20 to $30 a head. Also, it was new to me that the great Cid himself is by patriotic tradition the original bull fighter. I did not catch whether Dr. Cline himself did ever bull fight, though I know were...
...Paradoxical though it be," says Dr. Roback, "most of the major Jewish philosophers of the present day are not willing to own up to any Jewish influence." Henri Bergson stoutly denied that either his style or his ideas revealed any Semitic traits. Lucien Levy-Bruhl, distinguished anthropologist, thought his work was typically French. But the question, Dr. Roback thought, was not likely to be settled by comparing the work of known authors. He hit on the idea of trying to sort Jews from non-Jews in the writings of unknown persons. Accordingly he persuaded a colleague to let him have...
...gigantic blond Dutch anthropologist named H. M. Dernelot Moens was put on the stand by Maitre Torres to testify for Miss Warner. He swore that, upon look-ing closely, he could not see any clothes on the defendant nor, for that matter, could he see what clothes were supposed to conceal...