Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sneered Counsel Hogan, "anything in connection with the tax return of this petitioner for 1931 that has anything to do with whether a bank in which he had no interest did or did not receive money from him in 1933, I respectfully submit you will have to indulge in mental gymnastics or forget all the laws of evidence." Objection sustained...
...ballet by Ulanova, the newest "Soviet Pavlova," who is an appetizing* 23-year-old. With the Soviet Pavlova danced a new "Soviet Nijinsky" named Chebukian whose Communist admirers boast that "his jumps are even better than those by the great man who today lives in a world of mental darkness in Switzerland...
...cadet of the United States Military Academy at West Point, N. Y., and you are, therefore, authorized by the Secretary of War to present yourself before a board of officers at Fort Sheridan, Ill. on the fifth day of March, before 9 o'clock a. m., for mental and physical examination...
...attitudes of the waitresses soon convinced onlookers that something far more important was in the wind. Evidently a crisis was at hand. The waitresses were seen to gesticulate, stare blankly into space, and undergo all the agonizing symptoms human beings display when they are attempting to exercise mental powers. The task was in vain, however. The lasses were not up to the situation. The menus had been stolen and the poor girls could not memorize the order list. A typewriter was employed and Freshmen were forced to order dinner from plebeian carbon copies...
Coughlin has been blowing off a lot of poppycock for the past two years and so far no one has questioned his mental fitness to ponder such matters, let alone broadcast his views...