Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...novel, "Come in at the Door," is laid in the Delta country of the Mississippi, but also because a dark and forbidding pessimism is the net result of a somewhat unreal tale in which death, crime, and violence play their full part. To consider March a mental step-child of Faulkner is, however, extremely unjust. "Come in at the Door" is March's second novel, and, obviously an experiment in form, it likewise leaves a strong impression of being all experiment in subject matter and in attitude. In inclines one to believe--and to hope fervently, for March's possibilities...
...years ago in Honolulu Mrs. Massie was attacked by five natives, one of whom Lieut. Massie and his mother-in-law kidnapped, later shot to death. Defended by Clarence Darrow, Lieut. Massie was convicted of manslaughter, but sentence was commuted (TIME, May 16, 1932). Grounds for the divorce: extreme mental cruelty, "no connection with the murder case." Three days after the divorce Mrs. Massie was in a Reno hospital, under treatment for acute alcoholism...
...coinage system. Head of this com mission, which shuttled all over the Dominion holding public hearings last summer and autumn, was Hugh Pattison Macmillan, Baron of Aberfeldy (TIME. Aug. 28, Nov. 20). For ten years Lord Macmillan had been heading British com missions including the Royal Commission on Lunacy & Mental Disorder and the Home Office Committee on Street Of fences. His most publicized job was "The Macmillan Report," which he wrote as head of the British Treasury Committee on Finance & Industry and which became the only Blue Book ever to be published in Britain at a profit. After two months...
...said, theoretically at least, that mental deductions, like good cheese, ripen and become richer with...
...Angeles, March 1--David L. Hutton today won a divorce from Aimee Semple McPherson on charges of mental cruelty...