Word: humanizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Living takes a steady, unhysterical look at the inside of an overcrowded, understaffed state institution, makes no attempt to prettify the facts, none to magnify the horrors. The mad, like the sane, have their differing personalities, and in an atmosphere vocally more suggestive of a bird shop than a human habitation. All the Living runs the gamut from a cheerful nut willing to swap the White House for a cigar to sex-tormented schoolteachers and victims of dementia praecox...
...publicity counsel for Bell Telephone Co. During the War he headed Liberty Loan drives. After it, he became an explorer, discovered dinosaur tracks in Arizona and a primitive Indian village. ''Lost Mesa," was made a chief of the Navaho tribe with a certificate written in human blood to prove it. Six years ago he took as his second wife Paulina Stearns, daughter of a wealthy Ludington, Mich, lumber family. In 1933 he went to southwestern Oregon for the first time...
...than from adventure. Risk is only censurable when it is too big for the one who undertakes it. ... The lady in question failed to draw the line between a legitimate risk and a foolhardy plunge. ... My opinion of the lady is that expressed by Wordsworth: All too good for human nature's daily food...
...gets his effects, like an accomplished sleight-of-hand artist, by looking in the wrong direction, delivering little sermons about this and that, suddenly popping out with his tricks already worked. Because of this stealthy way of sneaking up on a story, his characters sometimes seem less like human beings than like rabbits pulled out of a hat, blinking uncomfortably at their sudden appearance...
With the specimen were priceless samples of primitive embroidery, depicting in vivid colors, gods, demons, and preserved human heads which the Indians collected as a hobby...