Word: mentality
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...after conviction of perjury, later voluntarily spent three weeks under observation in an insane asylum, was charged in 1931 with embezzlement and fraud but escaped trial. Attorney General Wilentz got a copy of the confession, learned that Wendel was being held under guard in a State colony for mental defectives at New Lisbon, N. J., had him ordered turned over to Mercer County (Trenton) authorities. By some mistake Wendel was committed to Mercer County jail, not on the 1931 charges, as planned, but on a charge of having murdered Charles Lindbergh Jr., the crime for which Hauptmann...
...takes a gallant fling at the modern social structure by giving his money to the deserving poor. At this point relatives step in with a motion to ship him off to an insane asylum. In the uproarious sanity trial which follows he is accused of everything from abnormal mental depression to "pixylation" (state of being followed by pixies), but Jean Arthur breaks up the proceedings at the last moment with love and kisses and saves him from the confines of the sanatorium. Altogether the plot and dialogue abound in amusement, and the supporting, cast puts it over to perfection...
...tried to think out her life in terms of mental and spiritual progress," agreed the proletarian Post. "The effort, it seems, betrayed...
...Hooton proposes an Institute of Clinical Anthropology, presumably to be financed by one of "those great philanthropic foundations which alternately establish and allow to perish . . . institutes for research to promote human betterment." Besides growth, old age, immunity and susceptibility, the institute would study norms and variations in physical, mental and nervous structure. New research channels would be fully developed.,: In orthopedics, for example, X-rays and slow-motion pictures would be used to investigate posture and gait from birth to death. The staff would include some physical anthropologists, whose special training and points of view are essential...
...George Alexander Morrison, Member of Parliament for the Scottish Universities, offered a teaser to test his colleagues' mental quickness, was appalled when the teaser was publicized, when his telephone began ringing as answers poured in from all over Europe. The teaser...