Word: dementia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Born Criminals do not exist, said George Washington University's Fred August Moss. But many a person has tendencies which predispose him to crime, viz., epilepsy, paranoia, paresis, dementia praecox, senile dementia. Smalltown children are less apt to become criminals than children of large communities, added Columbia's Hugh Hartshorne. A friendly classroom atmosphere is one of the most powerful influences on child character. "Moving pictures do not contribute to delinquency," said Philadelphia's Phyllis Blanchard. "I have sat in motion picture theatres and marveled. . . . When the villain is caught, as is always the case under the policy of those...
...hearing a battery of alienists and attorneys came forth and electrified the air with attacks on Sculptor Dreyfuss's memory and intelligence. They argued his "unsociability," "potentiality to become a dangerous citizen." Two physicians from the Manhattan Hospital said he was suffering from dementia praecox and had delusions of persecution by his mother and brother...
...kitchen rendezvous. Soon the balmy girl became a mother. Her uncle dragged the lieutenant toward her, stressing the necessity for nuptials. Unable to agree, the lieutenant began by protesting his innocence of even the preliminaries of fatherhood; but eventually, finding some obscure charm in the lady's dementia, he claimed the bastard as his own, embraced the mad mademoiselle and then, kicking an epigram across the stage, killed the butcher's boy with his sword. The butcher's boy was played with mischievous skill by Romney Brent...
Died. Delphin Michael Delmas, 84, famed criminal lawyer, defender in 1906 (for an alleged fee of $100,000) of Harry K. Thaw, originator of the phrases "brain storm" and "dementia Americana," and one of the first lawyers to make a successful insanity plea; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...same voices, suffer from the same delusions. No single instance has been found of one twin going insane while the other remained sane. Sometimes this has been shown to be the result of association, and separation in the ward has brought about changes in the character of the dementia. Would each have gone mad if the existence of the other had been unknown? There are doctors who believe they would; that having the same inheritance, developed from the same egg, the insanity is a proof of an inherited emotional instability that would have manifested itself at the same time whether...