Word: dix
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cause for Alarm" in the January 1938 number not only surpasses in boldness its uninhibited predecessors but, more astonishingly is written about men's not women's sexual troubles. Outlining the functions and disturbances of the prostate gland, Miss Davis combined the technique of Kathleen Norris, Dorothy Dix and the American Medical Association's Journal...
...Just in time to attract Legionnaires on the morning after their big parade (see p. 12), the Museum of Modern Art hung up a selection of gruesome war etchings by German Otto Dix, who spent four years on the Western Front, and a dynamic painting, Armored Train, by Italian Gino Severini, one of the Italian Futurists who discovered about 1915 that war was both hygienic and beautiful...
...Government silver depository, similar to the gold fortress-vault at Fort Knox, Ky., to be constructed on the grounds of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point. Last week the President signed a bill fixing the site of the silver fortress not at West Point but at Camp Dix, N. J., where as many as 63,848 soldiers were quartered simultaneously during the War and where 1,034 are still encamped on a 7,843-acre military reservation. Reasons for the change, recommended by the House Military Affairs Committee: Camp Dix is conveniently located between New York, where foreign...
...hall devoted to "Insults to the Honor of German War Heroes" were several etchings by Draughtsman Otto Dix, who ranks with Grosz for his skilled and brutal memories of trench fighting (TIME, Aug. 6, 1934). Another section oddly entitled "The Mocking of Christianity" displayed Emil Nolde's Christ and the Thieves which the National Gallery in Berlin bought for $10,000 in 1930. There were also "A Peasant Scene from a Jewish Point of View," "The Manifestation of the Soul of the Jewish Race" and a group called "The Derision of the German Women." But the greater part...
...doctors and reformers who pioneered U. S. psychiatry, Benjamin Rush showed the greatest ingenuity, Dorothea Dix (credited with founding or improving 32 mental hospitals) the greatest energy. Better known to present-day readers is Clifford Beers, whose autobiography, A Mind That Found Itself, published in 1908, created a sensation by exposing his typically brutal treatment in private, endowed and State hospitals during a three-year stay. On the crest of the ensuing public indignation was launched the modern mental hygiene movement, which during the World War received an impetus like neurology in the Civil War. When IQ tests tried...