Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cause to blame. Cars are made to go faster and faster, many of them are sold on the basis of their speed:--this one "can touch 73 without pushing," that one "can do 50 in second." The manufacturers are not guilty; they must follow the trend of competition. The human nature that makes undergraduates push their cars--as very often they push themselves--to the limit is the force that keeps many parents awake nights, the force that is too often responsible for a shocking tragedy...
...Grand Rapids, Mich., the city pound manager put a cat into the asphyxial chamber with some dogs. The cat arched its back and spit for a fight. Its fur was bristling. .The manager slammed the chamber door and turned on the gas. The box exploded, injuring human attendants. Another explosion followed a similar experiment. Last week under the same circumstances there was a third explosion. Deduction: static electricity from the fighty cat's fur ignited the lethal gas. Authorities considered having the Grand Rapids Gas Light Co. perform further executions under contract...
Behaviorism believes that "behaviour of man from infancy to death is the subject-matter of [human] psychology." Behaviorism's chief exponent, John Broadus Watson, says: "Thinking is merely talking . . . with concealed musculature...
Jealousy (Paramount). Louis Verneuil's play was much praised on Broadway last season for technical cleverness -its only characters were the ex-mistress of a boulevardier, her new husband, an all-too-human telephone. Maddened by things he heard over the wire, the husband finally went out to slay the other man. This story has now been made into a sound cinema. The unseen lover appears, but to no advantage. Jeanne Eagels as the wife employs a ridiculous English accent, the action is turgid, the photo-graphs dull. Silliest shot: Frederic March taking time out to suppress his justifiable...
...case wondered: 1) could Mrs. Burns prove that the American, when it printed Burns's story, "well knew" of his malice towards her? 2) If she could prove that, and prove her whole story, was it worth $100,000 to the American to have printed without verifying its "human interest" story about "poor War Veteran Burns...