Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...morning session there will be three speakers, who will consider collectively the normal, subnormal, and nervous child. Dr. Walter F. Dearborn, Professor of Education at the University, will speak on "The Normal Child"; Dr. Walter E. Fernald, Hon. '13, Superintendent of the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded at Waverly, on "The Subnormal Child"; and Dr. C. Macfle Campbell, who is Director of the Boston Psychopathic Hospital, will close the program with an address on "The Nervous Child...
...Nervous Child", by Dr. C. M. Campbell, director of the Boston Psychopathic Hospital...
...Dice of the Gods. Mrs. Fiske is the latest actress to lend her talents to the dramatic literature of dope, which has filled nearly a dozen theatres this season. At least she is a cheerful dope fiend. Hers no life of nervous shivering, furtive sniffs of coke, and dull-eyed fits of depression, but rather a bright and sunny addict, having a good time with her drugs. In fact the very Pollyanna of snow birds, now singing, now clowning, now whimsical, but always looking on the bright side of morphia. It is, perhaps, the most interesting and innocuous...
...humiliation is full to the brim, and indignation has come to the boiling point. Everywhere there is sentiment for forcible action-and to avoid responsibility the Government should act, thereby placing the consequences squarely upon the French and Belgians." The "Allies." The Belgians and Italians are rather nervous about the whole situation. The former are alarmed at the determination displayed by both the French and the Germans, and are frankly pessimistic about the eventual outcome of the occupation. The latter are concerned by the limited results obtained from a project which they had fondly hoped would return them handsome profits...
...pretty one, but it is splendidly carried out by their conductor, Arthur Bodanzky. This musician, who also directs the orchestra at the Metropolitan Opera House, is distinctly a great personality. Tall and gaunt, with the characteristic long face and high forehead of a musician, he is a bundle of nervous energy and fire. He is by temperament a scholar, even an austere scholar, whose greatest devotion is unearthing gems out of the dust and debris of music. As an example: He is giving a year's work to the orchestration for performance of an opera of the old English...