Word: brained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...driven a trifle off center by the disasters in the family, revolves about her daughter. Overpowering possessive selfishness sets her to keep Jane to herself. She forbids the match. When Jane stands her ground the mother bursts into a blind fury and pours into Jane's sensitive, overwrought brain the poison tale of her inheritance among the children of the still, white satellite. The girl's mind falters under the shock, and as the final curtain falls the audience hears the purr of airplane high in the foggy night in which the lovers are climbing to the moon...
...Funk-Brentano of Paris is credited with the discovery of new methods of "twilight sleep" (painless childbirth) differing from the scopolanium method now widely in use. They consist of injections of extract from the pituitary gland (a small oval body attached to the brain near the optic nerve) combined with progressive doses of chloroform. The woman retains a degree of consciousness and speech, but is not aware of pain. Eight hundred deliveries have been made by these methods at the Boucicault Hospital...
...Santiago Ramony Cajal (1852-), Spanish, professor of histology, University of Madrid, authority on structure of brain and nerves...
...Anyhow, Mr. Wright can justly claim that he is America's favorite author. As a literary phenomenon, he is astounding. Why has he succeeded so vastly? In the first place, he tells a story, and nearly always an old enough one so as not to unduly tax the public brain. His books are clean, his heroines beautiful and virtuous, his villains black as sin. Each of his books contains a moral idea. He writes badly, but directly. He is sincere?he uses his cliches as if no one had used them before. And he is completely and happily impervious...
...order to miss no opportunity of playing on the pecularities of adolescence Mr. Tarkington has created a hero with his brain just a trifle off center. Thus the youth, physically and financially at the highly marriageable state of 21, is able to engage in a serious love affair which has all the comic possibilities of Willie Baxter. For those whose passion is eugenics such a creation, with the implied probability of its recreation in a young generation of Tweedle-Castleburys, may seem a trifle inconsidered. Among the first night audience none thus disturbed could be discerned...