Word: brained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cornell University is the Wilder collection of preserved brains. From their evidence, Dr. James W. Papez, curator, last week concluded scientifically that all physical qualities, such as mass, formation, wrinkles, surface area, prove the female organ equal to the male. Chief among the exhibits in favor of women was the organ of Mrs. Helen Hamilton Gardener, ardent feminist but reasonable debater. Live, she had sought to prove such equality in a book, Sex in Brain. Dead (in 1925), she had willed her brain as mute, tangible evidence to clinch the argument. In the Wilder collection last week, no brain...
...Significance rests upon two important counts. When the Atlantic Monthly, once the sedate barouche in which members of Boston's old literary circle sent their gentle brain children out for placid airings, last year whipped up its horses with a $10,000 prize for "the most interesting novel of any kind, sort or description," submitted by any writer, "whether born in London or Indianapolis." Readers looked for some tranquil, mildly effeminate tale, perhaps modeled on those of Edith Wharton. They were surprised on scanning the first installment of Jalna to discover a robust and brawny fiction, crowded with characters...
Paralytic manifestations appear sometimes early, sometimes late. Recovery may be complete, or partial or complete disability develop. The central nervous system is attacked, sometimes involving the brain, always the spine...
...intelligibility. Thus, through William Demarest's mind there float childhood memories, fragments of verse, scraps of conversation, encounters real and imaginary, idle and erotic, gay and sad; strings of words, chains of sentences, nets of associated ideas as tangled yet meaningful as the twisted ganglia of the human brain and body. Because Poet Aiken has a vivid sense of words, a mocking humor and much delicacy, these undercurrents are pleasantly fantastic, without the visceral insistence of Poet Joyce's spillings...
...retiring personality to capture votes by red-ink methods as he has captured readers, he started under an almost insuperable handicap. He lacked the glad hand. He never was a mixer on a small scale or a large one. Accordingly the only weapon he had left was his brain, backed up by the power of newspapers. These proved insufficient...