Word: callouses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good are U.S. mental hospitals? They are not as bad as the 18th Century Bedlams, which were a cross between a filthy jail and a callous human zoo; but they are nowhere near up to the humane and efficient standard of U.S. hospitals proper. This was the gist of a report made last week by a New York State Commission...
...often the insane are neglected, friendless, locked out of the way and forgotten. The people who care for them are often callous and incompetent and make sick minds worse...
Roundy dubs himself "the old lawn-mower pusher." He is as much a town character as a columnist, knows everybody, gripes at tavern prices, poses as a callous cynic while collecting hundreds of dollars for crippled children's camps and other charities. His style is not a pose. He talks that way, dictates his column...
Ever since "Col. D. Streamer" (Harry Graham) wrote this callous little quatrain (Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes') in 1901, British poetasters have amused themselves by writing variations on the theme. Recently London's weekly Time & Tide offered prizes for the best wartime ruthless rhyme. Three of the six prizewinners...
...shocks, the Army's tough little Surgeon General Norman T. Kirk gave the nation some advice. Said he: the armed services do their best to salvage a battered body. But the harder job of healing a battered spirit is up to family & friends. "Don't be callous ... and don't be oversympathetic and overhelpful. Treat him as a normal human being...