Word: dementia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scouts, rather, undergraduates." He pointed out the methods of identification in crime which belong essentially to the field of Anthropology. "Our, hope is that we may identify the criminal before, as well as after the act," he said, "so that we may recognize the presence of dementia praicox before and not after little Willie has put the baby in the oven." He mentioned the possibilities of the relation between race and crime citing statistics of the negro, and foreign races in the United States. Racial psychology, according to Professor Hooton, is not yet definite, but with delicacy of technique increasing...
Another diversion - or dementia - on the part of the visiting Elks was scattering confetti on the populace below from hotel windows, and when the 'fetti ran out, so the story runs, hundreds of pillows were ripped open and the feathers were strewn "all over Creation and a part of Cincinnati...
...three weeks for as little as 1,000 dollars plus passage and wine costs'. Worst of all is the possibility that such men as Senator Borah may effect a renewal of relations with Russia, where divorce is only a matter of minutes, and does not even require proofs of dementia praecox, chronic alcoholism, or sadism. The Soviet might almost stabilize the trouble on the proceeds...
...college students, in the Middle West, kidnaped young Robert Franks, according to their own confession, and murdered him in cold blood, entirely for the sake of a "thrill." The defense, according to newspaper dispatches, is rallying its forces around a new plea, "dementia jazz-mania," in order to free the confessed murderers...
High lights at the osteopaths' convention: Cures were claimed 1) for hay fever, by Dr. T. L. Ray, of Fort Worth, Tex.; 2) for various types of insanity, including dementia praecox, through removal of circulatory and nerve defects, by Dr. A S. Hildreth, of Macon, Mo.; 3) for infected tonsils, through nonsurgical treatment, by Dr. Lucius Bush, of New York. A practical examination for every physician once in five years to keep him up with the times was advocated by Dr. C. J. Gaddis, of Chicago. Dr. W. A. Gravett, of Dayton, 0., was elected President...