Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...laymen wondered if the legendary difference between the English sense of humor and the American might not have colored Psychologist Aveling's conclusions. Is all laughter "ugly . . . hard . . . selfish?" Is a father "ugly" when he manifests delight at the cunning or courage of his small son ? Is it "selfish" of children to chortle and bubble when the magician yanks the rabbit from the hat? Are those people "hard" who sometimes burst out laughing even when they are all alone, for no reason that they could tell you except that "it seems so good just to be alive...
Taken as a whole such contests would be wholesome and helpful to society. To artists the introduction of men in beauty shows would not seem strange. . . ." So said said Dr. Thaddeus L. Bolton, noted psychologist of Temple University (Philadelphia). "The male figure is decidedly more decorative than the female figure," he continued, "thus proving that the male is a better biological specimen than the female. Throughout all the ages the form of the man has been more frequently used for the creation of things of beauty than the female figure...
Miss Sinclair, is above all else, a psychologist; she is that even before she is a novelist. But in this case her psychology is more akin to pathology than to an interpretation of manners and characters which is the true junction of psychological fiction. Taking a family of six children she follows their careers through the stormy era of adolescence and leaves them stranded desolate on the rocks of approaching middle age. Admittedly the family is neurotic, but disease hardly accounts for the series of catastrophes which these brothers and sisters are made to endure. Drunkenness, seduction and insanity furnish...
...Oliver settled down to sort and examine his large mail. The press echoed with skeptical reflections on the laws of chance and Lodge logic. Many people recall that similar tests held lately by conservative Dr. G. H. Estabrook, onetime Harvard psychologist, had produced no evidence for mental telepathy...
...older universities have the youngest one to reckon with. Besides the largest endowment,* Duke University (Durham, N. C.), has an enviable climate and the true quiet of academe. A combination of these assets has already enabled Duke to take from Harvard that pre-eminent psychologist, Dr. William McDougall. Dr. McDougall said he had been happy at Harvard but could not resist Duke's offer. Many another famed professor is happy where he is, but boards of trustees are watching nervously to see who next will be unable to resist the prospect of Ducal paradise...