Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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FSCOTT Fitzgerald in his latest book, "Tender is the Night," has transferred a case study in mental hygiene into a novel of wealthy American thrill-searchers on the Riviera. The performance has been a skillful...
...genuine advance in the teaching of these subjects would result were the student allowed to take text books or at least formula cards into the exam room. Mathematical subjects are not mastered overnight at the Widow's and these aids would prove a mental convenience rather than an intellectual crutch; and furthermore their use would enable the harassed student to spend the fleeting hours before finals in a more profitable pursuit of knowledge...
Divorced. Mrs. Alice Dickson Pinto Cudahy; by Packer Michael Francis Cudahy; after a five-year separation; in Milwaukee. Charge: Mental cruelty...
...Republican party should also be the young Republican party--young in the sense of years and mental elasticity. The voters who most need to be assured are the younger ones who merged from school or college during the depression and felt justified discontent with a world that had been managed by their elders...
...performances of the individual actors let me suggest to Mr. Norman Lloyd, professional though he may be, that if his conception of mental anguish is to twist his body into fantastic shapes and to stand with his hands raised to the heavens and his back to the audience--if that is his conception, it is certainly a weird one. Mr. Byer's sense of the melodramatic nearly ran away with him and Miss Margaret Lang gave a surprisingly sour-faced and matter-of-fact portrayal of Death. Mr. James Tower, in the part of Lewis the Loving, needs a gentle...