Word: hood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lindner thereupon placed Harold in a deep hypnotic trance, suggested his baby hood : "You are getting smaller and younger. ... You are very small now, a very small baby ... in the cradle. . . . Why did you first start to blink your eyes?" Harold then related, in sharp detail, two frightening experiences apparently at the age of about six or eight months: 1) sitting in his mother's lap at the movies, he was terrified by a picture of a "wolf" (probably Rin-Tin-Tin, says Lindner); 2) next morning, waking early in his cradle, he saw that his father, looking wolfish...
Guide on the Hood. Gangling Mark Clark dropped in for a look, transferred from his Piper Cub to a jeep, toured for three hours, a Partisan guide roosting on the hood. He found weeds growing in the boulevards, only a tenth of the peacetime population of 125,000 still pottering through the dismal embers left by Allied bombings, German demolitions. The 60 docks, 35 cranes, 21 warehouses were an addled mess. Across the harbor entrance lay three sunken ships. It was plain that Leghorn would be little help to Allied supply problems for weeks to come...
...single floor on Fifth Avenue, it moved into its modern 53rd Street residence in 1939. Its Modern Architecture exhibit (1932) was the most comprehensive view of such workers in the International Style as Germany's Walter Gropius, France's Le Corbusier, the U.S.'s Raymond Hood. In 1935, it successfully arranged the American canonization of Vincent van Gogh. In 1936, its Cubism and Abstract Art show was a glamorously complete record of the quarter-century since that September Morn of cubism: Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase. In later shows the Museum assembled Fantastic...
People who practice "planned parent hood" believe that babies should be born at two-year intervals. This cherished tenet is wrong - if Johns Hopkins' Dr. Nichol son Joseph Eastman is right. Last week he asserted (in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology) that the two-year interval was deduced from obsolete statistics...
Bruce Barton, advertising tycoon, onetime G.O.P. Congressman, ranged himself alongside the Sheriff of Nottingham. In a speech before some 370 be-orchided New Jersey socialites, he found a new name for Franklin Roosevelt. Said he: the New Deal's "morals have never risen above the level of Robin Hood, who defended his thefts from the rich on the ground that he gave to the poor...