Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dogs. Soon the dogs, expecting a meal, would start to water at the mouth at sound of the bell. Dr. Pavlov called this drooling a conditioned reflex. It proved that imagination has power over body, directs the basic cravings of living creatures. That proof earned Dr. Pavlov a Nobel Prize (1904), the gratitude of Christian Science, the devotion of physiologists, and the respect of Russian peasants and workers. Today he continues his researches in the fine big Institute for Experimental Medicine close to Leningrad, draws $10,000 a year salary, is privileged to ignore Soviet politics...
...marrow and members of the Cabinet last week wailed: "This is terrible! Terrible!" Tension was heightened because His Majesty had been cartooned in the lowly and menial attitude of a huckster drawing through the streets a cart on which lay a rolled-up paper supposed to be the Nobel Peace Prize. What Vanity Fair's cartoonist might be getting at was obscure to Japanese, but he had dared to cartoon the Divine Emperor, and he had placed the Son of Heaven in an attitude which made Japanese blood boil. What, Japanese wanted to know, was President Roosevelt going...
...showing the Emperor of Japan walking off with the Nobel Peace Prize, Vanity Fair also showed J. P. Morgan making a stump speech against Capitalism, Admiral Byrd wintering in tropical Tahiti, William Randolph Hearst as Ambassador to Soviet Russia and Huey Long in a friar's robe entering a monastery. To crack this page of mirth wide open it was captioned "NOT ON YOUR TINTYPE. Five highly unlikely historical situations by one who is sick of the same old headlines...
Foreigners with no taste for such blood & thunder could have instead from Fascist Playwright Luigi Pirandello, as that Nobel Prizeman landed in Manhattan last week, a comparison of Abraham Lincoln to Benito Mussolini who is going to free the slaves of Ethiopia. People interested in neither atrocities nor slaves but with a taste for the mystic were provided for by Fascist Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio. "You are going to victory," he informed departing Italian volunteers. "It is so inexorable-I wish to say fatal- to conquer...
With little experience as an administrator, Dr. Gasser was uneasy about a job that may curtail the study of nerve physiology on which his scientific reputation stands and that entails the full management of the Rockefeller Institute and the supervision of its 651 employes, including two Nobel Prizewinners and Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Before he would accept Dr. Flexner's offer, he went to St. Louis to ask advice of old friends at Washington University where he worked for 15 years. They soothed his qualms, advised him to accept. He returned to Dr. Flexner's office, accepted, went scooting...