Word: minding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...divorce was granted by the dean on grounds of incompatibility. Percival's state of mind was agitated by Conger's feats of self-mutilation. "He was a good gent but he insisted on wearing practically no clothing and burning himself with cigarettes. He also wanted the windows open all the time regardless of weather," explained Percival...
...Goldshurs' lawyer pleaded: "For many years Mrs. Goldshur has been preparing a thesis for a master's degree in psychology. . . . She has become so interested and so involved in this study that she has developed an abnormal frame of mind, bordering on insanity." The judge sentenced the Goldshurs to six months apiece in the county jail, placed them on probation for four of the six months. All the dogs had to be destroyed...
...week in 1883, a single investment of $10,000 was big stuff. In his grating voice, Witness Ecker remarked: "I have seen that grow to where ten million is only in the same proportion that the $10,000 was. . . . I haven't fixed in my mind any place at which it would be unsafe to continue. . . . I believe that our policyholders are better protected now. . . . We have 100,000 separate investments. . . . The wider your diversification, the more protection you have...
...margin or the word colonies mis spelled. At military camp one of his pupils is killed, and the causes and consequences of that death are grave indeed. But death, concludes the author, is better than life in such a world. When he reads about death in the papers, his mind cries out, "Too few are dead, too few." He wishes he could...
...sets out from his Hoosier Quaker home to become a minister and to mend the world singlehanded. Before long he finds himself extolling Mammon in the pulpit of a brand-new stone temple and wishing he loved a brand-new, stone-cold wife for something besides her money. His mind cracks, and he disappears...