Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...careful dusting. It must, indeed, have been a spectacle to her to see a girl who never failed in her recitation room sitting, in the character I had assumed, beside another who was known as 'the wildest girl in school.' But Miss Dickinson had remarkable clearness of mental vision. She made no ado whatever, but said, 'Well, if this is not fortunate! The mosquitoes have almost driven me out of my room this hot summer night, and if you girls will just come in and smoke them out, it will be a great favor...
...mimeographed attack upon it. Excerpts: "Utter ignorance of Creole customs. . . . Did the author perchance pick his 'young ladies' in a bawdy house? . . . Caricature. . . . Unsullied reputation of our Creole maidens. . . . Nauseating. . . . Filthiness. ... A monstrous slander of the purest womanhood to be found in the U. S. . . . Slimy animalism and mental filth. . . . The author might be a handsome young man for aught we know. The skunk also is a beautiful animal...
Then she gave them 30 tests of their mental nimbleness, including...
...only normal people whose mental nimbleness rated even with their intelligence were those of "vocabulary ages" 13, 14 and 15. In mental quickness younger minds averaged higher than their schooling; older minds, less high. Nonetheless, they provided standards by which to judge the demented...
According to him: "Whiskey stimulates the flow of gastric juices, it takes the edge off mental worries; it is a panacea which, if used in moderation, the human race cannot well get on without. It is far more efficacious than wine or beer; and, what's more, there's no use talking about wine or beer as far as this country is concerned. The Anglo-Saxon race is not a wine-drinking race and never will be. Legalize wine and beer and you will have a nation of staggering dyspeptics, all afflicted with cirrhosis of the liver. Legalize...