Word: behaviorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farm near Momence, 40 miles south of Chicago. There Knifey broke into the home of a neighbor, eccentric old Farmer Henry Allain, who was always pottering about with inventions. So they sent Knifey to St. Charles reform school for boys. A year ago he was paroled for good behavior...
...request. The German people have lately become restive, weary of war (TIME, June 30). Said the Nazi Party organ NS Kurier last week: "Whenever and wherever we observe people we notice over and over again little feeling of interest shown in great events of this war. This terrible immaterial behavior is so unbearable that the Government should take steps against...
...Hollywood, seated on a golden throne at last-a prop one borrowed from the M.G.M. warehouse. Ex-Bundführer Fritz Kuhn, now convict 26558, was refused a parole at Dannemora, where he is serving two and one-half to five years for stealing Bund funds. Despite good behavior, the board decided he was "a hazard, to the public peace." Red-haired Annelise Thomsen, wife of the Nazi Chargé d'Affaires in Washington, denied she would refuse to return to Germany with him, called contrary rumors "insane . . . nonsense." Said she: "I may have jokingly said I wanted another...
...have plenty of money to flash in the faces of the South Americans, but money or no money, they are constantly making themselves disliked by their arrogant and aggressive and superior attitude and also they unconsciously insult all the South Americans by their stupid rendition of the language. The behavior of the American men and women in the shops, hotels, restaurants, nightclubs and in all public places is far beneath the quality of the English, and the behavior of the English is at least 40° below the behavior of the people from the European countries. And the Nazis...
...Elsie Houston; a "Jubilee" of gospel-singing Negro quartets (some with three or five members) and the guitar-playing bishop. The bishop, the Rev. Utah Smith, wears paper wings, lately inspired Composer-Critic Thomson to write: "As a stimulator of choric transports he incites the faithful to movements and behavior not very different from those of any true jitterbug. Myself, I found it distinctly pleasant to hear good swing work and to observe its effects in surroundings imbued with Protestant Christianity rather than among the alcoholic stupidities and more somber diabolisms of the nightclub world...