Word: frazer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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AFTERMATH-Sir James George Frazer -Macmillan ($3). Supplementary volume to The Golden Bough, classic collection of primitive customs, beliefs...
Modern anthropology overlaps a number of sciences-anatomy, pediatrics, sociology, psychology, ethnology, paleontology. Few living men in this vast field have plowed over all of it. The venerable Sir James Frazer (The Golden Bough) surveyed the realm of savage culture. Sir Arthur Keith is an authority on the forerunners of Homo sapiens, Malinowski on primitive sex customs, Levy-Bruhl on primitive mentality. Harvard's Hooton, a thorough student of African archeology and a brilliant commentator of human evolution, is first and foremost an anthropometrist-a man with a pair of calipers and a battery of tabulating machines. The Smithsonian...
...Fascist whose portrait hangs in Rome at Fascist Party headquarters. Like the good Fascist he is, Lord de Clifford bought himself some time ago an Italian supercharged Lancia in which to burn up the road between Belisha beacons. While doing so one night the Italian Lancia met a British Frazer-Nash head on and killed Douglas George Hopkins, the sporting secretary of the Frazer-Nash Car Club, who was driving with his sister Sheila and her friend Rosemary Reynolds. A constable verified from the wheel tracks the impression of all concerned that Lord de Clifford was not driving...
Attorney General Sir Thomas Inskip clipped out a dry, unemotional prosecutor's speech for the Crown: ". . . The police constable found the defendant's Lancia car near the middle of the road, and, like the deceased's Frazer-Nash, it was badly damaged. ... I shall submit that, if your Lordships' defendant was driving in a reckless, careless, negligent manner on this occasion and by so driving caused the death of Douglas George Hopkins, your Lordships should find him guilty of the offense of manslaughter...
...sincere and constructive criticism of the government department would be greatly appreciated by Professor Holcombe and his entire staff. A malicious, untruthful and ignorant attack such as the one by Alan Frazer in the American will be read and remembered with a contempt due the author and the publisher...