Word: behaviour
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dallas, Tex., Vincent Kerens, bond broker, received $1,900,000 last week because he, "of his own free will and desire, has passed five consecutive years of sobriety and good behaviour." These terms had been laid down by the will of his father, diplomat, railroader, who died...
...issued, while Mr. Crandall, dodging away from the enraged dancer, was booed, hissed and subjected to fruit-throwing. Five minutes later, it was announced that an injunction had been secured which would permit the marathon to continue 22 hours longer. Couple No. 7, despite their unruly and ill-bred behaviour, were permitted to remain upon the floor...
...through the motions of tribal ritual-king-crowning, lion-hunting, getting married, they manage not to fall into the anticipated postures of improper ingratiation. But they are always ready to roll their eyeballs, with evident satisfaction, at the camera man, thus detracting from the illusion that their curious behaviour is entirely unaffected...
...Like Human Beings, says: "This book . . . aims especially to introduce you to the important known facts of human nature and to such biologic hypotheses as can be made to work." Concerned only with the facts of the case, Author Dorsey politely performs introductions to Visceral, Genetic, Somatic, Social, Cultural Behaviour in successive chapters. The book does not argue, it states. Its aim, the aim of the "Things-to-Know Series" to which it belongs,! is to inform. It is a sound book, a sensible series...
While at Bowdoin College, where he was a classmate of Longfellow's, Hawthorne indulged in frivolity sufficient to incur occasional censure from the authorities, behaviour in contrast to his later position as one of the spiritual leaders of literature. In this role he was not of the type of Dickens in the handling of concrete and social questions, but was more akin to Thoreau in looking at life from an individual point of view, and in leading the movement for greater individual freedom...