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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Further, it may be true that these congenital defectives are doomed because their mothers suffered emotional or physical stress during the antenatal period. It must be allowed as a hypothesis, because any hypothesis is allowable when the facts are as yet unknown. But unless the number of endocrinal defectives (and consequently of criminals) is enormously large, it is not extremely plausible . Few mothers escape grave occasion for worry, and most of them are obliged to perform rather laborious tasks during the critical period. There has been a marked advance in this respect within recent years, still, ideal conditions are anything...

Author: By Isabel Paterson, | Title: BOOKS and OTHER THINGS | 5/17/1928 | See Source »

...mock convention, Houston is slated to observe a battle as merciless as New York did four years ago. But the University is hardly to be taken as a measuring scale. The opposition last evening had a curiously immature appearance; there were more favorite sons suggested than the fondest mother states ever dreamed of owning; there was a deep and mysterious undercurrent of exchanged votes. The party may be troubled by as much internal dissension as its miniature, but the peculiarly local difficulty of missing delegations will not hamper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOR PRESIDENT | 5/17/1928 | See Source »

...name of Ziggy's mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Ziggy | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...house. He returns next day to find her vanished. But Author Miller can be relied upon to make out of her not the psychic fantasy of Bentham's weary mind, but the heroine of an excellent movie scenario, rivaled as such only by "Her Mother's Jewels" of the same volume...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: No Inhibitions | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...hope is destroyed by her own suspicion that she cannot consistently play the part; by Raymond's discovery of her identity with Marjorie Wynne; and, climactically, if somewhat comically, by the revelation of her lowly origin. For her mother, "betrayed" in her youth by a gentleman (Daisy-Daphne's father), rises out of her recaptured East Sheen respectability, and waddles into Raymond's parental drawing-room to inquire into the intentions of Daisy's young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

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