Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...principal characters, an Irish solicitor named Royce, bears a pleasant family resemblance to him in speech and ways. But, nevertheless, this slight and smiling tale of the adventures of Basil Price, private secretary to Lord Edmund Troyte, will serve the average reader as an acceptably mild antidote for mental fatigue. The hero first tries to get the fishing rights of an Irish salmon-stream for his chief; then foils a deep, dark plot of some rascally picture-dealers to buy an unknown Gainsborough? subject: Great Grandmother of the title?for a song from a ruined Irish squire. Sir Ames Coppinger...
Reading the lives of great men oft reminds us that it is frequently the historian who makes history, who sets up a hero with a pen stroke and dims some famous name with an erasure. It is his race, color, or previous condition of mental servitude which often leads him, in his vigorous renovation of the past, to arrive at some rather startling conclusions...
...records of the past in the United States and other countries show the effects of still other types of mental astigmatism in the observer. Revered traditions and enshrined heroes of America are protected above by the screaming eagle and on all sides by a cordon of staunch state legislatures, self-chosen guardians of national myths. Any history which puts in question an action of the United States may be thrown out of the schools as foreign propaganda. In the opposite camp are the "heretics" who tell us that whatever is, is probably not right, and who sometimes go afield...
...even states that the British will "at a suitable moment, be ready to take part by the side of its allies, with whom they share a practical interest in this question, which they have no intention to abandon." Surely this is the most unkindest cut of all, and the mental peace of Germany has changed to panic...
...been offered. The great mass of people, whose lives are prosaic in the extreme, and who crave excitement to satisfy their natural impulses, find an outlet for their emotions in the reading of tales of murder and suicide. They find a kind of psychological relief in the death and mental anguish of others; and thus, perhaps, are kept from committing suicide themselves. Mental stimulation furnishes a sort of antitoxin to what is generally termed "the latent blood-lust of a morbid humanity...