Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...investigated in this work is, what is the brain's adequacy for the purpose of social adjustment. ' The human brain may be rendered unfit to social adjustment by disease or faulty development, by improper training in the home or in the school, by harmful influence in childhood or in adolescence. Criminal tendencies and criminal acts may arise from any of these causes acting on the brain...
Marriage Revealed. Albert James ("Albie") Booth, 24, Yale athlete; and Marion Noble, 23, New Haven secretary, his sweetheart since childhood; in Branford, Conn.; July...
...over whom they have no authority is more tragic than the old man's maundering decline. Louis, able, conscientious, energetic, tries hard to save the Colombe fortune. Jourdaine, married to a petulant diplomat, stays at Saint Saturnin, harried by the spectacle of her father's second childhood. Nicholas, thoughtful and lonely, tries hard to keep up appearances at the chateau. Jourdaine's son arrives from soldiering in Arabia in time to help him. Their affection for each other is cemented by their sympathy...
...Morgan von Roorbach Shepard. He says he is 55, looks about ten years older, is small, wiry, baldish. Contrary to strangely persistent legends (besides one that he is a woman) he is neither crippled nor blind, nor has he a harelip. His professional name dates back to his childhood on a Maryland plantation. A bird house in the backyard was occupied by a colony of martins, identified by his mother in her story telling as John, Joan, Robin, Alice (et al.) Martin...
...course of his not too nostalgic childhood reminiscences Author Mackenzie takes his readers the length of a Victorian London street, introduces them to as engaging a troupe of well-to-do householders as ever went to market to buy fat pigs. Memories of their sooty black houses, architecturally linear and flat, are prettily three-dimensionalized by little whirlwinds of domestic perturbations spiralling, like smoke from the chimney-pots, above every roof...