Word: behaviorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...served with a writ charging 'indecent behavior in a public thoroughfare," was ordered by a district court to pay a ?2 fine. Three dignified members of an appeal bench heard the outraged policeman give evidence: it was not in keeping with Egyptian tradition that a girl should "practically embrace a man in the street. In fact, husbands & wives, when in public view, always walked at a respectable distance of at least six feet...
...glamorous Lord Byron was a neighbor. The Napoleonic Wars were over; the long golden age of travel on the Continent had begun. Shelley's household abroad included not only Mary, whom he married, but her sister, Claire Claremont, one of Byron's cast-off mistresses. His scandalous behavior shocked London, and he never returned to the city after 1818, later writing stanzas beginning "Hell is a city much like London...
...Anglican Church of St. Aidan's at Leeds, England, the vicar was preaching the evensong sermon. In the choir stalls behind him two dozen choirboys sat still as church mice. The absence of fidgeting and whispering was not just good British behavior: the choristers were absorbed in juvenile thrillers-which the vicar had furnished...
...courses, none of which has ever been previously offered in the University. This combination of something borrowed and something new yields a field of concentration which offers possibly the broadest area of knowledge in the University, as it runs the gamut from Abnormal Psychology through Primitive Religion to Political Behavior...
...will left the bulk of his estate-some $240,000 before taxes-to his two sons, a daughter-in-law, and Baroness Budberg, whom the will described as "my very dear friend." Father Wells took time out to express his "loving recognition of the good and sane behavior of all my offspring toward...