Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Allport, "Egoism as Basis of Behavior," Emer...
...defense, the Court held, that Comrade Miguschenko, like most political advisers of Soviet sea captains, knew nothing of seamanship himself. The prosecutor next flayed the seamen for not mutinying anyhow to save the tanker: "We must abolish the outrageous behavior of some seamen who still cling to the disgusting traditions of Capitalist fleets!"-i. e. obedience to captain's orders...
...best detective in America if not in the world." Last week Author Pratt, heretofore recognized as a historian (Ordeal by Fire), offered a volume containing accounts of twelve of Ellis Parker's more sensational successes. Less a batch of detective stories than a collection of analyses of human behavior in moments of crisis, The Cunning Mulatto is obviously modeled on the tales of Sherlock Holmes, with Author Pratt in the role of Dr. Watson asking intelligent leading questions. Although he tells little of his personal life, Detective Parker began trapping criminals because of his anger when his horse & buggy...
Major characteristic of the Cardinals' performance this year as last has been rowdy behavior, on & off the field. This has caused baseball writers to refer to them as ''the Gas House Gang," to compare them to the oldtime Baltimore Orioles, who could fight almost as ably as they could play. The famed Dean Brothers, after a bad start, last week seemed reasonably sure of winning the astonishing quota of 45 games which they set for themselves last spring. Jerome Herman ("Dizzy") Dean had won 23. Paul Dean...
...them enemies of his father-and with them raced horses, chased girls, picked quarrels, went shooting at chimney-pots. He fell violently in love with Mrs. Fitzherbert, twice widowed at the age of 25. A gentle, reserved woman and a devout Catholic, she did not approve of his wild behavior. In 1785, to prove his sincerity, he married her secretly, thus establishing a royal mystery which was not solved until the discovery of the official marriage documents in 1905. The rumor of his marriage spread at a time when anti-Catholic feeling was strong. Through a spokesman in the House...