Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fascination of Edger Wallace to cultured minds was a phenomenon as remarkable as his productivity. It is said that an illustrious professor in our midst, among other people, subscribes to the opinion of his Majesty. The secret of that fasciculation was not merely in the relaxation he provided from mental effort; it sprang also from his tremendous virility. Those who saw "On The Spot," his play about Chicago gangsters, can appreciate the effervescing mixture of melodrama and force at which he was so adopt...
Hypnotism has contributed so much to the knowledge of mental activity that all students of psychology must have a smattering of its mechanism. It is merely a deep sleep which a person can bring upon himself. Usually, however, the subject puts himself in a relaxed position and stares at some bright object above his head. The hypnotist, meanwhile, cajolingly suggests that he is sleepy. Bye & bye he falls asleep. In that sleep he will, like Trilby, do many of the things the hypnotist tells him to do. Sometimes the strain of a subject's attempts to obey the hypnotist...
Medicine's best use for hypnotism as a therapeutic agent has been to untangle mental kinks. In peculiarly sensitive people it may ease pain and insomnia better than anything else. Some doctors have found it useful to cure stammering and seasickness. In France Dr. B. de Rachewsky treats hayfever by hypnotizing patients into a belief that pollen is no more contagious than warts...
Divorced & Remarried. Mrs. Edith Gould Wainwright, 30, daughter of the late George Jay Gould; from Carroll Livingston Wainwright, 33, Manhattan socialite who was committed by his brothers to Bloomingdale Hospital last year, was later adjudged to be "mentally competent"; in Reno. Grounds: mental cruelty. Mrs. Wainwright immediately married Sir Hector Murray Macneal, 53, Scottish shipowner...
...last analysis the paper manifestations of nations are readily passed aside. Polls on disarmament, student international groups, and all the educational facilities that can be devised are able to do little. For the preservation of peace, a sane mental condition, void of scarism, but attempting to reach a sound opinion, is worth more than all the paper agreements that can be framed...