Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once a person is committed to an insane asylum, his chances of getting out are small. The more he insists that he is sane, the more suspicion he attracts to himself. The struggle to convince can arouse actual dementia.* There are no precise gauges of mental normality...
Last week, however, Dr. Harriet Babcock was perfecting such a gauge at the Manhattan State Hospital. Primarily she intended to grade the progressive mental deterioration of paretics. Converse result was to mark the clearing up of all befuddled minds. Vocabularies provided her with a clue...
Divorced. William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey; from Estelle Taylor, cinemactress, for mental cruelty; in Reno...
Divorced. Lawrence Mervil Tibbett, barytone opera singer and cinema star; by Grace Mackay Tibbett; in Reno. Grounds: mental cruelty, fame & family not mixing...
...overwhelmed me." His first best-seller was The Jungle (1906), whose profits ($30,000) he sank in Socialist Helicon Home Colony at Englewood, N. J. Now he lives in Pasadena, Calif., with his second wife (he was divorced from the first). They have made "some rather startling experiments" in mental telepathy. Sinclair likes to play tennis, requires his secretary to be able to play a "rattling good game." His own game has been described as "the picture of confident grace." Last week, threatened with a nervous breakdown, he was taken to a hospital for rest and observations. Some other Sinclair...