Word: brains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coal-breaker is an inanimate object with no brain of its own. It is a building in which the coal is broken and assorted to size...
Senator Walsh has a brain, too; a patient, unbending, inexorable instrument in which he takes a chill delight when he brings it to bear on an Oil Scandal or a Power Probe. Unbending, unemotional, he has been called unique: "an Irishman without a sense of humor." Not until the past few years has he shown ambition nor, until very recently, even sufficient self-consciousness to trim up his Montaneering mustache of iron grey...
...figures the alimony. Knowing this, the young husband shows his virtuosity as a shrew-tamer. He takes her to a hunting lodge, turns soft living into hard, makes her tote wood, build fires, wash dishes, pose for him, behave herself. At last he drives figures out of the brain of the amateur gold digger. John Mack Brown is the successful husband of this successful picture...
...blankets. John becomes twice a father and gets an eight dollar raise. John and Mary worry and work; then in a mobbed street a truck crushes the baby, and John, frenzied, tries to stop the city because his child is sick. The acid of the tragedy bites his brain. He loses his job, his work fibre loosens, he is out of step with the crowd. When Mary threatens to leave him, he gets a sandwichman job; the work fibre tightens, and John Sims. Everyman, is once more running with the pack, happy...
...Gilbert Horrax, Instructor in Surgery in the University, will lecture on "Brain Disorders from the Surgical Standpoint" tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Medical School, Longwood Avenue. This is one of a series of free public lectures given at the Medical School by the Faculty of Medicine of the University...