Word: brill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...none has been so convincing in victory, so steadily capable as this trio, the "Big Three" of 1929 football. To mention the names of a few of the players who have born the standards of these teams to victory sounds like reading an all-American team. Elder, Cannon, Carideo, Brill, Moynihan, Yunevich, Harmeson, Welch, Uansa, Parkinson and so on almost indefinitely...
Psychiatrist Abraham Arden Brill (Freud-follower): "I am heartily opposed to the killing of this woman. . . . Society is based on repression, and the most important repression is the command 'Thou shalt not kill...
African savages do not lynch people. Southern white "crackers" do. Psychiatrist A. A. Brill has said: "Anyone taking part in or witnessing a lynching cannot remain a civilized person." Lynching is a handy substitute for the merry-go-round, the theatre, the symphony orchestra and other diversions which "crackers" lack. Author White has enough sense not to present lynch-law as an indictment of civilization below the Mason-Dixon line. Instead he conducts an inquiry which blames, not the whole white Southern civilization itself, but elements thereof...
...social activities. He was indifferent even to dress, favored $2.50 hats, and ready-made suits. When the Perroquet de Paris was opened to the elite of Manhattan's night life, Roger Kahn left his expensive tuxedos hanging in the closet, wore a $40 suit bought the day before from Brill Bros. Of course, he was only a boy then?19. Now, almost 20, he is growing more debonair. He brought back to the U. S. this summer 50 tailored suits, untold neckties, shoes, hats, from London. He has even been reported engaged to marry Miss Virginia Franck...
...time of the trial of Murderers Leopold and Loeb in Chicago a year ago, Dr. Brill attracted attention by declaring that George Washington and Woodrow Wilson as well as the murderers were "schizoids," i. e., independent persons, progressing on aims tangential to the tendencies of the day. Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt he classed as "syntonics," i. e., persons following a line which, however set, synchronizes with their surroundings...