Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years by intelligent action on the part of parents, according to Dr. Isaac Newton Kugelmass, one of Manhattan's ablest pediatricians, who in ten years' practice accumulated a book full of explicit methods for generating and rearing able children. This he published last week as the first manual anywhere to deal with the child as a creature growing physically, emotionally and mentally from conception through adolescence...
...learn to behave in a way that does not repress his instincts and abilities, yet does not annoy other human beings. Teaching the infant, child and adolescent such emotional and intellectual disciplines is the hardest job that a parent has. Dr. Kugelmass gives many a useful pointer in his manual. Dressing and undressing, he shows, "are difficult techniques for the young child. Each bit of raiment requires a special procedure. If the child is given the freedom of trial and error in the manipulation of his clothing and shoes, he will gradually learn to dress. Parental encouragement, guidance and instruction...
Instantly M. Boverat mobilized against Miss Warner the powerful forces of the National Alliance for Increasing the Population of France, which tucks an illustrated manual of instruction into the knapsack of every French recruit and has obtained exemption from Army service for every Frenchman with six children or more, reduced railway tickets for families with three or more, many another benefit for the fecund. Within a few hours M. Boverat had obtained a police order barring Miss Warner from dancing at the Bagdad. Next he got her indicted "for an offense against the public's sense of shame...
Aubrey Williams' rich planter grandfather voluntarily freed a thousand slaves, involuntarily lost the rest of his property in the Civil War. Trained only for leisure, Aubrey Williams' father turned to manual labor, became a notably unsuccessful blacksmith. Son Aubrey went to work at 6 in a torpedo factory, at 7 became cash-boy in a Birmingham department store...
...picked up the Congressional manual and declared: "I shall read the Constitution of the United States. Will I offend anyone if I do that? . . . All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in the Congress of the United States. . . . Are they in Congress today? Are the laws regulating the planting of crops vested in Congress? No!" So Long went on through the Constitution section by section, sentence by sentence, phrase by phrase. An hour later, looking up from the nearly empty floor, he beamed...