Word: nationalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...psychoanalysts, as Professor Pitkin is supposed to be, as well as a teacher in a school of journalism, then the privilege has long ago been usurped by the ghouls who invaded the tombs of the historic ancient dead, as Professor Pitkin now invades that noble sarcophagus in the National Cathedral in the Capital of the Nation...
Despite the nation's disappointment, the baby Princess was not neglected last week. Scarcely was her weight, 7¼ pounds, announced than the Lord Chamberlain Admiral Suzeki in elaborate court costume entered the royal nursery, bent over the royal bassinet, and laid a short ceremonial dagger beside the little Princess, a gift from her father the Emperor Hirohito which she will have by her all through her life to protect her from harm. Because she is a girl, he laid beside the dagger a tiny purple hakama, or ceremonial skirt. Soon came government officials led by bushy-browed Prime...
...CARRY NATION - Herbert Asbury - Knopf...
...herself "a bulldog running along at the feet of Jesus, barking at what He doesn't like." Author Asbury calls her "the most industrious meddler and busy-body that even the Middle West, hotbed of the bizarre and the fanatical, has ever produced." However that may be, Carry Nation's early, morbidly religious life led naturally to a public career which made her name a U. S. byword...
After Carry's second marriage, to Lawyer-Minister David Nation of Warrensburg, Kan., the daughter went insane and Carry Nation herself became very peculiar. Every night at bed-time Mrs. Nation told her troubles to God, dragging herself around the room on her knees. At times she felt herself suspended over a precipice by a heavenly hand; at other times she saw two snakes. She heard wings beating, saw angels and devils, met Jesus in the basement. A proud reminiscence: "I was often considered crazy on the subject of religion." At length she heard a voice exclaim from...