Word: locusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frederick Ullman Jr., of Pathe and Writer Gilbert Seldes (The Seven Lively Arts) showed This Is America to an enthusiastic audience in Manhattan. This Is America is calculated to help satisfy the public appetite for recent history, lately .revealed and whetted by Author Seldes' The Years of the Locust and Frederick Allen's best-selling Only Yesterday. Cinematically it examines the state of the Union since 1917. These are some of the scenes of the nation's follies and accomplishments in the past 15 years: Front pages screaming WAR. Women knitting, soldiers tramping, Charlie Chaplin selling Liberty...
Outside the inn, the taxi which had brought the old man from nearby Locust Valley rattled away hesitatingly. The driver was wondering where he had seen his passenger before. Was it in Locust Valley? Was it in the newspapers? When he got home next morning he described the old man to his wife. She said she had seen him too the day before, and she knew who he was. She told a New York Herald Tribune reporter that it was Joseph W. Harriman, the defamed bankster whose escape the previous day from the Regent Nursing Home in Manhattan, where...
...when intelligence-testers began to impress the nation, Principal Persis K. Miller of Locust Point's public school asked Johns Hopkins' Psychiatrist Adolf Meyer to survey the community, a social back-water of Baltimore. Dr. Meyer's agents found 166 children in Locust Point who were sufficiently subnormal to need special training. Some were considered ''liable to recruit the ranks of the vagrants, the alcoholics, the prostitutes, and the delinquents." Others would be "drifting along at the lowest social level." All would be in one way or another detrimental to society...
Seventeen years later Principal Miller and Dr. Meyer had Dr. Ruth Eldred Fairbank, Johns Hopkins' psychiatrist, see what had become of Locust Point's morons of 1914. What she found she reported last week in Mental Hygiene. She found most of them still living in the neighborhood. All but two of the girls were married. Only five cases of illegitimacy and five cases of prostitution occurred during the 17 years. Three-fourths of the subnormals are supporting themselves. One became a Pro- hibition agent. One "nitwit," who can write only his name, progressed to an inspector...
...Locust Point itself had great influence in turning its morons into citizens. It is like a small town without rural provincialism. Factories have always provided work for those who wanted to work. Three or four generations of Germans, Poles, and Hungarians have tended to own their own homes. Economics and society have been stable. And the investigators credited one individual for the rise of many a Locust Point moron to good citizenship. This was Hannah Dorritee, a schoolteacher, now over 80 and retired to the Presbyterian Church Home at Towson outside Baltimore. She was "aggressively determined not to lose...