Word: nothingness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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>Received from New Hampshire's misfiring Senator Bridges notice that he would ask an investigation of Mexico's seizures of U. S. oil properties. Over angry Democratic protests Republican Bridges read aloud "weird" newspaper stories hooking up the name of Pennsylvania's Senator Guffey with sales of...
He found out that maids in the houses of Madrid noblemen get $4.50 a month, adding-either as a slur on aristocrats or a tribute to maids-that you can tell the maids from the aristocrats on the street because the maids are not allowed to wear hats. Gas is...
Still hopeful, the engineers proceeded to the main experiment: a signal sent by remote control from a 100,000-watt transmitter 10 miles away at Hicksville, L. I., the antenna of which pointed toward Mars at an angle of 30°. By common consent, the "message" was a meaningless succession...
Recuperating from an appendectomy at the age of 19, Linnea Fransson of East Orange, N. J. was told by the doctor to eat what she liked. What she liked was candy, lemonade, ginger ale. She ate nothing else. She left business school, retreated to her home, sucked lollipops to her...
To psychiatrists, Linnea's case was no puzzle. Anorexia nervosa (hysterical lack of appetite) often occurs in unstable women who are unconsciously afraid to grow up, and, according to Freudians, derive a childish sexual pleasure from finicky eating (oral eroticism). Some, like Linnea, gorge themselves on childish foods, others...