Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sinister but fascinating mental healer, Osgood Perkins has never had better lines to wrap his tongue about. He begins with the observation that "Maine is a masculine Riviera." He progresses to Bismarck's solution of the Irish question, to wit: send the Irish to Holland, the Dutch to Ireland. The Dutch would soon make Ireland a garden. The Irish would soon forget to mend the dikes. Finally he reaches the heart of his cynically expedient philosophy by recalling that he started out as an eye-ear-nose-&-throat man, but soon shifted to psychiatry because "the poor have tonsils...
...Canon City, Colo.'s prison, Warden Roy Best invited 100 convicts to watch the gas chamber execution of a pig in rehearsal of the execution of Murderer Otis McDaniels the following night. Said the Warden: "It gave them a mental picture for reference purposes of death in the gas chamber." Said McDaniels, excluded from the test execution: "I would have liked to have seen it." Following night the Warden invited a picked handful of convicts to watch the death of McDaniels...
GAUDY NIGHT-Dorothy L. Sayers- Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Though murder stories form the chief mental diet of many a respectable citizen, even the most avid consumers are apt to be apologetic or defiant about their appetite. But they would not admit that detectification is the lowest form of writing. They would point out that the ability to concoct a specious and readable thriller demands more ingenuity and special training than many a novelist can command. And they would further contend that the best murder stories can compete with novels on their own ground. Partisans might instance the tales...
...recommended for the D. S. O. Then in 1917, because he considered that the War had degenerated into a senseless slaughter, he published a public protest, "in wilful defiance of military authority." Because he was a war-hero he was not court-martialed but hushed away into a mental hospital. The front line had changed his oldfashioned, literary poems into the brutal realism of Counter-Attack, whose taste was too strong for many a stay-at-home. His autobiography (Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer) was a quiet masterpiece of emotion recollected in post...
...general, the program of the conference deals with three periods of the child's growth--from two to eight years of age; from eight to 15; and from 15-22. The actual development of the child, physical, mental, and emotional, will be discussed in three sessions, corresponding to the three age groups...