Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fippany fared not so well. On one occasion she nearly died of appendicitis. Before the operation she asked Jim to take Addie as his wife, and Jim promised, with the mental reservation that Addie should choose for herself when she grew...
...have little Latin and less Greek I should not venture to say. Search in the dictionaries and Concise Oxford, Webster Century is in vain. The contex would give to one knowing its Greek roots the meaning "deep sea enthusiast". Then why not use that adjective? But "bathysophical" requires some mental conjuring. And then you are uncertain...
Love, according to this book, in women, is simply "an over-secretion of hormones in interstitial cells adjacent to the Graafian follicles; stimulation induced by powerful photographic image of someone of the opposite sex on the mental lens." So remembering that Gita is soundly hormonious, Eustace, who loves her, accepts, and waits for his image to get photographed...
...true that the functions of their office exact neither physical nor mental effort from these gentlemen. Sweatshop workers, boilermakers, bookkeepers, often look upon them with envy. Guards have it easy. All they gotta do is just stand, and once in a while tell some loonhead where...
...Leavenworth (Kan.) Penitentiary, expert now at needlework sits Dr. Frederick Albert Cook, self-proclaimed but discredited "discoverer" of the North Pole (1908). Last week Dr. Cook was reported "in such a bad mental and physical state" that he might never finish his term (begun early this year) of from 1 to 14 years for oil-stock fraud...