Word: invaliding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...committees are little by little coming into actual existence. The dreary descriptions penned by Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde, among a score of other forces working to the same end, are apparently effecting their purpose with a slow but steady persistence. The idea of a convict being a mental invalid and of a prison being properly a remedial hospital for his cure which would have aroused nothing but blank amazement in the minds of Judge Jeffrey's and his contemporaries, is accepted at the present day by most people with only momentary qualms. Teaching a man a trade and allowing...
...course impossible to remove entirely the atmosphere of punishment, and it is not certain that such a procedure would be wholly desirable. The criminal, even though he is to be regarded as an invalid, must be brought to realize that although society pities him, it also disapproves. What can be done is to eliminate the spirit of vindictiveness that has existed, and to substitute for it one sane, helpful cooperation, with every influence working for a beneficial result...
Maria Thompson Daviess (whose autobiographical narrative Seven Times Seven is appearing in the Pictorial Re-view and soon to be published in book form) is an invalid; but, in spite of the fact that she is confined to her room most of the time, she is the gayest, the most effervescent of women. When I saw her the other day she was busily planning to take up again her favorite work of "play-doctoring" which she did for years. Said she: "Just because I can't move about is no reason why I can't sit still...
There is however, the school record. Theoretically, a man who has done well in school should do well in college; as a matter of experience this theory is so often contradicted that it is quite invalid as a working rule. Nevertheless, the school record is helpful--as auxiliary evidence only...
...THOUSAND AND FIRST NIGHT?Grant Overton?Doran ($2.00). A young aviator, Evan Lloyd, who drops out of the sky at sunset?Cynthia Fanning, who is taking care of her invalid grandfather, the ex-sea captain Magellan Fanning, in St. Martin's Manor, the home on the end of Long Island that has belonged to the Fannings since the reign of King Charles II?the memory of a shipwreck that occurred more than ten years before the story begins?a rash debt undischarged?the narration of the tragic love story of another Cynthia Fanning and young Pedro da Gama that...