Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hormonal Personalities. Dr. Walter Freeman, grandson of Philadelphia's late great nonogenarian Dr. William Williams Keen, practices neuropsychiatry in Washington. He dissected 1,400 lunatics after their deaths to find out what effects, if any, their endocrine glands may have had upon their distorted personalities. He also studied the personalities of several hundred normal characters who suffered from hormonal disturbances of the pituitary, thyroid, adrenals, sex glands, etc. After all that work Dr. Freeman concluded that hormones have a preponderant role in the total energy output of an individual as well as in the harmonious functioning of his nervous...
...which falls out; apathetic emotions; sluggish mind. But those external signs of myxedema (atrophy of the thyroid) may be absent and internal disorders take their place. That possible inversion of symptoms is so little known that Dr. Hans Lisser of San Francisco made a stir by showing that a person's lazy insides may be prodded by thyroid treatment. Dr. Lisser's most remarkable patient suffered from ascites (abdominal dropsy); flaccid heart, intestines and bladder; profuse menstrual bleeding; secondary anemia. Iron for the anemia, thyroid extract for the other "capricious vagaries" brought, said Dr. Lisser, "magical relief...
Snub. Last year President Roosevelt sent greetings to the Chamber. Year before he addressed it in person. This year he cut it dead. Chamber officials and White House secretaries denied an intentional snub, explaining that the President was too busy to speak and had not been asked for a message. Nevertheless, the Chamber rebels trembled in defiant delight, convinced that they had thoroughly riled the President...
...Kansas City, Los Angeles, Spokane, Seattle, Nashville, New York and a dozen other cities. New ideas for cashing in on the scheme popped almost daily. One chain raised the ante to $1, another to $10. In Oklahoma recipients of chain letters were instructed to give a kiss to the person whose name was at the top "and surely he may find a true love among the 15,000-odd trading kisses." In Philadelphia, racketeers began hiring staffs to send out chain letters to "sucker" lists. Just starting is a "Send-Pint-of-Whiskey" series...
Most of these theories form proper subjects of discussion in college classes dealing with the history and philosophy of government. Some belong properly in the study of economic systems and problems. No rational person can object to their being examined by the students. The only valid objection would be if, either in the form or manner of the presentation, these theories were to be definitely defended as superior to our own tried systems and if, at the same time, their advocates should preach the overthrow of our present government. The proper way to present such subjects is to differentiate between...