Word: braining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author James Gould Cozzens undoubtedly had in mind the end of Lamport & Holt Line's Vestris which, commanded by a seaman whose brain had been replaced by a fearful vacillation which caused him to delay some six hours before sending out an SOS, dragged 110 people to death three years ago (TIME...
...friend. Hertz, made of weaker stuff than Hoff, tries to persuade him to do as he himself has done: to compromise, to live with unlaid ghosts. When Hertz sees that Hoff is determined to give himself up, he shoots himself. By the time Hoff gets to the police his brain has begun to give way; he will implicate nobody, and when the only witness fails to recognize him the police take him for a harmless madman. Hoff's frenzy increases; they take him to an asylum. There he goes through hell: Herr Neumann calls it "katatonic excitement." Just...
...inside of this skull piece still indicates the shape and size of the ape-woman's brain. The brain was small...
That in itself means nothing. Small brains do not mean low intelligence. Intelligence shows up in folds, creases and wrinkles of the fore brain. The more complex the convolutions, the more intelligent the creature. The Jervois lady had a simple mind. She could grunt, squeal, gabble but probably could not talk...
According to legend, the idea of the play originated in the dream-ridden brain of a hard-worked laundress in Jacksonville, Fla. Actually, it originated in the fervent head of one Lula B. Jones, onetime member of Big Bethel's enthusiastic choir. She told her idea to the choir leader, Mrs. Nellie Davis, Atlanta night-school teacher, a graduate of Atlanta University in 1922. Nellie Davis built the idea into Heaven Bound, a play that is part pageant, part revival meeting, part spiritual charades in which the only part not sung is the sob of the Wayward Girl...