Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Foreign Office after a night broadcast, could not find the keyhole, had to strike matches. In Hyde Park, antiaircraft crews stood by their guns through the small hours. Frank Frewin Pinnock, 50, a London businessman arrested for reckless driving after a motor crash, pleaded "a mental blackout...
...sociologists discovered two family clans living in New Jersey. "One branch comprised upright, intelligent, prosperous citizens; the other abounded in degenerates, mental defectives, drunks, paupers, prostitutes and criminals." Both clans were descendants of Martin Kallikak, a soldier in the Revolution. After the war, Kallikak, who was of good stock, married a Quakeress, had seven respectable children. But before his marriage he had fathered a child of a feeble-minded servant girl. This roistering son, known to the neighborhood as "Old Horror," sired ten worthless offspring, who in turn were responsible for several generations of notorious Kallikaks...
...negative and unconstructive aspects. One minister (a very eminent man, whose books are best sellers) told me that he had had to take two members of his congregation to ah asylum-so grievously had they "gone off at the deep end" through jettisoning orderly processes of judgment, mental discipline and sound common sense and substituting therefore the capricious thaumaturgical foibles of these doctrinaires. Several friends of mine became "Groupers" (they like to add the erudite "Oxford" to the label) some time back but beyond a lopsided fanaticism, a persistent proclaiming how terrifically bad they were before and how "absolutely honest...
...Mental instability seems to be influenced by the instability of the weather. . . . With the pressure falling and the temperature rising we are afflicted with a feeling of futility." Statistics of cities lying in stormy areas, such as Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis, show that most suicides occur during periods of low barometric pressure...
While descriptions of battles, complex campaigns, intrigues, finances are all top-drawer Pratt, clear and simple as the maps that dot the book, readers are apt later on to find such Prattlings as these tucked away in their mental bottom drawers...