Word: bender
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the Governor's daughter, Helen Troy Bender, whacked a bottle of champagne on one of the goal posts, 500 bewildered natives, most of whom had never seen a football game except in the newsreels, watched the Sourdoughs beat the Baranofs, 6-to-0. The Gold Bowl was a cinder-strewn field, frozen sandpaper-rough. But nobody bled much. The players, onetime U. S. college footballers living in Alaska, were dressed in uniforms donated by the University of Washington...
...nine-ounce steel ball was dropped on a pane of the same glass from a height of 28 feet. The glass bulged and cracked but did not break. A young woman stood behind another pane while Chief Bender, famed oldtime pitcher, wound up and let fly a baseball at it. The glass stopped the ball...
Selected and captioned by Dr. Lauretta Bender, senior psychiatrist in the children's division, and hung in the Federal Art Project's Harlem Art Center, the exhibition last week embraced two clinical extremes: drawings by moronic children, unable to complete even primitive images, and monstrous figures drawn by patients with ''general paralysis of the insane." In between were works by children and adults of varying aptitude, suffering from various disorders...
...release of subconscious insight such as Francine's was found in other patients at a certain stage. ''Schizophrenics sometimes cling to reality just in the moment when, because of their disease, they are afraid of losing it completely," Dr. Bender said. "Then they see more than the normal person, who does not always appreciate what he has in this world." Most sane and able artists professionally see "more than the normal person," and in this, as in what Dr. Bender called "the uncanny mysticism" of other pathological daubers, the case work on exhibit invited rude yells from...
...example, saw in 1937 a 40 per cent increase of its evening automobile accidents, with increases in arrests for drunkenness corresponding. Figures for 1938 show that the condition is becoming worse. If prohibition failed to squelch Mr. Barleycorn, surely repeal has sent him off on one whopper of a bender...