Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speeches are lectures. After a trip to the Philippines he told Senators all about the islands as if they had never heard of them. Many a Senator voted to censure him for the Eyanson affair because of a longstanding irritation with what they considered his scholastic arrogance, his mental self-satisfaction. The tallest Senator (6 ft. 4 in.), he is lanky and thin-shouldered, though he carries his height well. Onetime Senator Jim Reed of Missouri, who disliked him intensely, referred to him sneeringly in debate as "The Tall Cedar of Lebanon." His features have an Indian regularity, almost handsome...
Sued for divorce. Hamilton Cottier, Princeton English instructor; by Mrs. Ann Seton Cottier, daughter of Ernest Thompson Seton (woodcrafty author); at Reno. Grounds: mental cruelty...
...either mental laziness or old-fashioned stodginess that sends a reporter out to interview a dozen eminent and nationally-busy people on 'Should kissing under the mistletoe be abolished?' If that is the extent of original ideas that can be created in a newspaper office, the newspapers of the Hawaiian Islands* have got Fleet street beat...
...professor Pratt, the Vagabond is frankly puzzled -oh, not by professor Pratt, but by a certain Mr. Donald McKee. Mr. McKee, is probably well known and thoroughly disliked by everyone under the age thirty as the cartoonist whose vivid portrayals of the younger generation, in various stages of mental degeneration and alcoholic stupor, appear in the popular magazines...
...Dottoressa Montessori actively participated since 1914 because of bureaucratical opposition to her method. Although she dislikes travel save by automobile or airplane, she went abroad the previous year. In England she fared well, establishing institutions, receiving an honorary D.Litt. from Durham University. In the state of Victoria, Australia, mental defectives are corrected by her system. South Australia subsidizes Montessori kindergartens...