Word: fairbanks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...FAIRBANK (Ronald) A Memoir. By I. Kyrle Fletcher. Illustrated with Portraits. Mint in Dust Wrapper...
...Ruth Eldred Fairbank of Johns Hopkins studied 100 would-be suicides, and the stupendous medical literature on the subject. A feeling of failure or frustration motivated most of these cases. Impulsive panic sends many toward death. Warning signals are: "I am an empty shell," "I am guilty," "I am afraid of going crazy," "There is no hope for me," "It's no use going on." Stubborn personalities, who lack plasticity in their makeup, are susceptible to suicidal ideas. Suicide is apt to reduce the resistance to suicide among survivors or descendants...
Prevention. "The only possible cure of suicide is prevention," advises Dr. Fairbank. "A suicidal patient must never be left alone." One attempt at suicide or frequent talk of suicide is usually followed by suicidal effort. In hospitals the "plungers are especially difficult to take care...
...Beals '32, H. R. Brown '34, J. H. Crandon '33, S. S. Dennis '32, B. L. Fairbank '34, L. L. Fillstrup '33, R. J. Gutheim '33, Louis Halle '32, P. G. Hoffman '32, Frederick Ireland '33, Samuel Kunen '31, W. H. Lehr '34, D. H. Lindsey '33, L. A. McCabe '34, J. S. Mason '31, A. E. Phillips '34, A. B. Schneider '34, M. M. Stearns '34, H. A. Stone '33, O. Z. Whitehead...
...LIONS' DEN-Janet Fairbank- Bobbs-Merritt ($2.50).† When young Daniel Carson was elected Congressman from his Wisconsin district, he went to Washington full of ambition and high ideals. Poor, unmarried, a farmer, he had lived a progressive but black-&-white life, and as a Congressman expected to do the same on a grander scale. In Washington he was seen with the wrong people, got off to a bad start. His ambition found little outlet on the Committee on the Disposition of Useless Executive Papers. Then he met Senator Miller's wife, beautiful, socially powerful, a teaser. Congressman...