Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think of him as commander of all Russia's cavalry and, later, of all the Russian armies. For even the dogs are conscious that something unusual, something dark and dreadful is coming to pass-the War, entered into by the Romanovs to gloss over their moral and mental shortcomings. To a dog like Siedoi, excitement is always welcome and off he goes to the front with Fedka. They are taken prisoners and live for a while in Germany. Then back they steal into Russia as heroes and Siedoi becomes more and more the main agent of the plot...
...successfully for her one-third dower-right) and the morning Telegraph, Broadwayish sporting sheet (she dynamically edited for two years). In 1927 she married Col. Lytton Gray Ament, introduced to her by Queen Marie of Rumania, honeymooned with him as the Queen's guest, divorced him last May for mental cruelty...
...Chicago last week for the council's annual meeting with the Federation of State Medical Boards and the American Conference on Hospital Service. Chicago was in its usual noisy municipal primary campaign with mayoralty candidates howling obscenities at each other. The doctors began their discussions with the subject of mental hygiene. Dr. Wilbur, polite and politic as ever, avoided plain statement, restricted himself to a philosophic: "Democracy demands at least a majority of competent citizens with orderly habits and balanced, temperate minds. Disaster awaits any people with too high a percentage of the insane, mentally defective, or emotionally unstable...
There is much to be said for the lawyer who faces the brunt of trained claim agents and railroad lawyers. I personally know of many cases where claim departments isolate badly injured men, get statements from them while in bad physical and mental condition from shock, and try every available trick to avoid liability. It takes a specialist to outfight these men, backed by a railroad bankroll. So cleanly has Michel fought that numerous railroad and corporation lawyers are among his written indorsers...
...checkers with a policeman. He calls me loony. Did you ever see a shambling imbecile whose dis eased brain didn't defend its lunacy by snarling at others? To refer to him as a blubbering charlatan perhaps is charitable. Even a lunatic may not be charged with complete mental bankruptcy...