Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ullman), 52, cinemactor; and Lady Ashley (Sylvia Hawkes), 52, onetime musicomedienne; after a round-the-world romance; in Paris. U. S. Ambassador Jesse Isidor Straus was a witness. In 1934 Lord Ashley divorced his wife on charges of misconduct with Fairbanks; month later Mary Pickford divorced Fairbanks for mental cruelty...
...existing malignant disease; 12) necessity of travel to remote regions where pregnancy cannot be properly cared for." In addition: "While our own laws and those of other countries do not as a rule recognize rape or extreme youth as indications for abortion, we as physicians, knowing the harmful mental or physical effects produced by a pregnancy in such cases, should seek to justify an abortion for medical reasons. If the abortion is done openly, there is little doubt that the courts would uphold such a decision...
...Cannon. Dr. Cannon voluntarily gave Christian Scientists scientific grounds for their dogma by demonstrating, first, that fear and anger disturb digestion, later that an unhappy mind may cause many kinds of bodily disorders. In Detroit last week Dr. Cannon retold his researches, advised physicians "to recognize the part which [mental healers] undoubtedly play in restoring the morale of the depressed and the anxious...
...students are not sufficiently aware of the physiological necessity of exercise. To answer Mr. Jones out of his own mouth, Harvard does not want humanity to be deprived of a genius before he has reached his prime due to some insidious malady that could have been prevented had the mental giant developed proper physical habits at a formative stage...
...before the War when Rudolf von Laban propounded his theory that the important thing was free, inspired movement regardless of its form, that music was unnecessary, at best a mere appendage to real dynamic feeling. Laban theorized down to the smallest detail, studied movements in relation to character and mental attitudes. First to give his ideas concrete expression was his pupil, Mary Wigman, a tense, rawboned woman who was 27 before she decided on a dancer's career. Wigman soon claimed that she could feel herself "as one of the primal things, unable to speak life, only to dance...