Word: misbehavior
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...result of long, painstaking study of thousands & thousands of children in Berlin, Yankton, S. Dak. and Baltimore, Dr. Kanner decided that the cause of a child's misbehavior is more fundamental and important than the way that child misbehaves. By isolating the cause he can accomplish a cure in most cases and ameliorate the child's condition in all cases. He classifies such causes in three broad groups: 1) those due to physical illness; 2) those due to involuntary dysfunction of some organ of the child's body; 3) those due to derangement of the child's body & soul...
...Punishment for her misdeeds arouses in her a persecution complex and a thirst to revenge herself on the Misses Wright & Dobie. Armed with information clandestinely gathered from Mlle de Maupin, Mary convinces her righteous grandmother that Miss Dobie is in love with Miss Wright, that she has witnessed grave misbehavior. The grandmother ruins the school by spreading the tale. The accused young women ruin themselves by pressing an unsuccessful libel suit. Alone in a deserted classroom, Karen Wright (Katherine Emery) and Martha Dobie (Anne Revere) are faced with a hopeless future. In her morbidity, Martha reveals that although Karen...
...Foreign Minister Pierre Laval warned the German Ambassador on Nazi misbehavior in the Saar, signed a trade treaty with the Austrian Minister who chirped. "It will facilitate French imports of Austrian wood...
...Illicit sexual indulgence," report the Gluecks, "was the chief form of their adolescent and early-adult misbehavior. All but 2% of our women had been sexually irregular prior to their commitment to the reformatory. . . . In fact, a fifth of the girls had their first unconventional sex experience before they were 15, and their average age at such time was but 17 years. Illicit sexuality was practically simultaneous with the onset of other forms of delinquency. . . . Four-fifths of the girls entered upon unconventional sexual practices voluntarily. In the vast majority of cases these erotic adventures were shared with casual acquaintances...
...obliging to his patrons, her desire for advancement carries her to a Manhattan penthouse where, at an orgy, she meets T. R. Paige (Lionel Barrymore). She trails him to Palm Beach and there scrambles into a romance with his son (Franchot Tone), who advertises unsuccessfully the advantages of misbehavior...