Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most active Southcott group today is the Panacea Society, founded some 20 years ago, which claims to cure "Cancer . . . Consumption . . . Mental Anxiety . . . Faults of Disposition ... the Tribulations and Perplexity that will precede the Coming of the Lord," by means of "Water and the Spirit." The Panacea Society claims that the 156-lb. box in its possession is the only true Joanna Southcott...
...cannot impose upon a people a brutal regime of selection by political and economic oppression, interspersed with periodic pogroms, without effecting a concentration in that people of all the mental and physical qualities which make for survival...
...assumption that mental and physical health are closely related, the Hygiene Department has in the past few years become increasingly interested in the study of a boy, not as a purely physical entity, but as an integrated personality. As cases poured into the psychiatric and medical departments, it became evident that they were getting a very one-sided picture of college life--were completely concerned with the outlook of the maladjusted boy full of miscellaneous terrors, real or imagined injustices, and evils of every sort. Thousands of others, well-adjusted to their environment, never were contacted; and to get their...
...much renovated Big Tree Swimming Pool are masses of facts and figures on almost every phase of life of some 80 normal boys. A thorough medical examination, registration of metabolism and fatigue tests, an anthropological examination,--all these were part of the survey of the physical side. On the mental side, investigations of the boy's genealogy and of his home, religious, sex, and academic life were correlated to produce a fairly accurate, if somewhat superficial, knowledge of his mental make-up. Results and conclusions of the survey will not be published for four more years...
Sued for Divorce. Gladys Dubois Armstrong, Hollywood song writer; by Robert Armstrong, 42, cinema tough-guy; in Hollywood. Grounds: mental cruelty and his wife's insistence that they live in Mexico...