Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crazy now. Dr. A. J. Desloges, director of hospitals for the insane for the province of Quebec, said that "the whole world would be insane in a quarter of a century," later revised his figures, made it ten years. He added the doleful news that the population in mental hospitals is increasing, but ''there are more insane outside of the hospitals than in them...
...went back to her family, capably took care of the house and children, gained weight and strength. Some paralysis and dullness of sensation remained on her left side; her face was lopsided. She could hear with only one ear, smell with only one nostril. Nevertheless, her friends noted no mental deterioration or personality change. She read constantly. Her sense of distance and perspective seemed unaffected...
...easy tickled...Play the fool when you come to something you don't understand...If you must play games, choose the one you're good at." Ben's parents are drowned and he is taken in by a pious uncle who soon goes to a Mental Home for Clergymen. Befriended by the fashionable Mrs. Molly, Ben is sent off to school, studies for the ministry, is disgraced in his snobbish surroundings when cranky Miserable Sarah leaves her home in the village of Dirty Gut to visit...
...Saturday Evening Post. Excellent are the carefully dated gowns, furniture, and cliches ("You're the Berries," "Think Fast, Captain Flagg," "They Just Dropped In and Took The Place Over") ; the stock-shots of outstanding news events, including Manhattan's welcome to Lindbergh; the songs and even the mental attitudes of the periods dealt with. Carpers will find a few inaccuracies: "This is the Voice of Experience" in 1929 ("The Voice of Experience" did not become a nationwide radio feature till 1933); Warner Baxter's 1936-style shoulder pleats...
...radios," treating the phenomenal universe as supremely unimportant, the creations of their inward visions as realities of the same quality as things in the objective world. "If we are sane, they are mad," says Author Gorer, who suggests that the mind may be a source of energy, that this mental energy may be very pronounced in great religious teachers, that possession of it may be, like inborn musical talent or genius, developed with training and practice...