Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. Norman Rockwell, illustrator (Saturday Evening Post covers); by Mrs. Irene O'Connor Rockwell; at Reno. Grounds: mental cruelty and neglect. Straightway she married one Francis Hartley. Jr., chemist, of Belmont, Mass...
...malice is sometimes the road to newspaper headlines. There will always be partisans desirous that the President should fail. . . . Every man has a few mental hair shirts and Presidents differ only by their larger wardrobe?for certain individuals, newspapers, associations and institutions officiate as haberdashers with a high generosity...
Differing Twins. One's ability and personality are not absolutely fixed by birth, but may be influenced by home, school and community, decided Chicago's Frank Nugent Freeman, after noting how twins resembled each other in height, weight, general shape and size, fingerprints, but differed in general mental ability, and still more in temperament and special skills...
...MacDowell was really the heroine of the gambol. When Composer MacDowell died it was his wish that his home in Peterborough, N. H. be used as a retreat by U. S. creative artists. After his fatal mental collapse there was little money left and it was Mrs. MacDowell who undertook to execute his plan. Though frail and crippled, she gave concert and lecture tours, raised nearly $100,000 in the name of the Edward MacDowell Association. Simultaneously with her efforts grew the Peterborough Colony where there are now 600 acres instead of the original 200 and 23 studios available...