Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...State census she padded the payroll and forged check endorsements to the amount of some $24,175.82 (TIME, June 4). Democratic Governor Smith put Republican Attorney-General Albert Ottinger in charge of the case and the latter begged a suspended sentence because of Mrs. Knapp's "physical and mental suffering, her exposure, disgrace and complete ruin." But 30 days of gaol she had to serve. She was Syracuse University's Dean of Home Economics after leaving, office and until exposed. She went to prison in a trim navy-blue dress and tan felt hat, matronly, greyhaired, self-possessed...
Probably every U. S. factory would have shown the ills that Dennison did. Few of the executives had organic diseases. Most were "healthy." But there were all too many cases of functional disturbances caused by mental strain, worry, improper living, neglect of personal hygiene. Some men had decayed teeth, others poor eyesight, improper glasses; some were under weight, others over weight. Men bright enough to have become Dennison executives were not smart enough to eat properly, sleep enough, avoid constipation, take exercise. President Dennison's example and the medical examiner's urgency made the executives start to remedy...
...further promise and declare that I will have no opinion or will of my own or any mental reservation whatsoever, even as a corpse or cadaver, but will unhesitatingly obey each and every command that I may receive from my superiors in the militia of the Pope and Jesus Christ...
Such questions, vital, cannot be answered without a preliminary brisk reading of the short treaty text, followed by a stimulating mental rubdown with the treaty reservations...
...array of Pirandello's characters-the old clinging foolishly to the dead Bourbon issue, the young fasci passionately avowing an unborn issue, and the middle aged fattening themselves on a fast demoding regime of ruthlessness-that one finishes his grand-scale novel with as great a mental confusion as existed in the Sicily in the 'gos. One cannot wonder at the half dozen protagonists that go mad in the course of 764 pages. Not even the main characters have all been mentioned here, to say nothing of the intricate assortment of servants, lovers, cousins, and the churchmen...