Word: children
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...handsome Palace of Fine and Decorative Arts, described as a $35,000,000 exhibit-destined at Fair's end to become an airplane hangar-proved that the Exposition's officials were wrong about human nature. For six months the art gallery (admission 25?-children 10?) never grossed so much as the "Dnude Ranch" (same price, no children admitted...
Painted as if from an elevation (see cut) with little sky and no perspective, the prize picture showed a log cabin, a Negro couple in a buggy, a hunter and his dog, children drinking at a well, cats, chickens, livestock, a plow and a manure pile. Said Professor Faricy to complaining artists as he took his leave: "It is the finest piece of primitive art I have ever seen. If any riots start, you know where to find me." No riots followed, but Missouri fairgoers stood in line to gape at Mrs. Lewis' work, stared at the painting that...
Genius and Kallikaks. Whether children inherit temperament, intelligence, musical talent or various diseases is a genetic question that has long worried Manhattan Freelance Journalist Amram Scheinfeld. To solve his problems he consulted a score of famous U. S. geneticists, read several hundred treatises on heredity. This week Journalist Scheinfeld published the first sound, popular treatise on the facts & fictions of heredity.*Main theme of the book is that heredity and environment are a dynamic combination, that development of personality is not governed exclusively by one or the other. Some of his points...
...Jersey. "One branch comprised upright, intelligent, prosperous citizens; the other abounded in degenerates, mental defectives, drunks, paupers, prostitutes and criminals." Both clans were descendants of Martin Kallikak, a soldier in the Revolution. After the war, Kallikak, who was of good stock, married a Quakeress, had seven respectable children. But before his marriage he had fathered a child of a feeble-minded servant girl. This roistering son, known to the neighborhood as "Old Horror," sired ten worthless offspring, who in turn were responsible for several generations of notorious Kallikaks...
Married. Leverett Saltonstall Jr., 22 Harvard graduate, eldest of Massachusetts Governor Leverett Saltonstall's five children (three boys, two girls); and Nancy Smith, 21, Groton, Mass, socialite; in Groton...