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...overprotected in childhood. As adults "they loved to talk, were fond of singing and were inveterate users of tobacco, indicating rather strong oral cravings and demands for satisfaction." They enjoyed male drinking companions. They were only 18 years on the average when they started drinking, drank up to a quart a day. They had "a craving for the blissful state of infantile omnipotence which drinking induced." Treatment: physical rest, increased nutrition, occupational therapy to engage the patient's interest, pleasant social life, discovery of the cause of emotional instability...
...incident, worthy of special note. In murder trial after murder trial, all over the land, courthouses have been swarmed with people who have no business there. Flemington was not unusual. In a French-revolution air, the courtroom was suffocated with people eating, people chewing, people drinking ginger ale from quart battles, people demonstrating in every conceivable fashion their contempt for the court. Mr. McDonald recalls an eminent alienist's examination of a row of 12 women at the Loeb-Leopold trial; only one of the 12 did not readily exhibit recognizable signs of psychosis...
While the ear of the nation was attuned to Nudism, Dr. Boone tried to fill it with rebuttal against Mr. Smith and with arguments for Nudism. Cried he: "There is more social danger to our young folks in a quart of gin than in three miles of State-censored movie film. There is a striking inconsistency between the removal of prohibition from liquor [for which Mr. Smith fought] and the placing of prohibition upon a movement which by actual results, has everywhere been hailed as a blessing and in no instances has been cited as the source of immorality...
...University of Chicago doctors announced that they had discovered a cheaper and quicker method of certifying pregnancy. Drs. Aaron Elias Kanter, Carl Philip Bauer and Arthur Herman Klawans use a little carp-like fish which costs only 30?. Within 24 hours after a female bitterling is placed in a quart of fresh water, which also contains two teaspoonfuls of urine from a pregnant woman, there grows out from the belly of the bitterling a long tubular appendage, called an oviduct, through which in the ordinary course of nature she would expel her own eggs. As soon as one pregnancy test...
...stadium after the Army game, than after any other major game this year. Is Harvard weakening? No, the reason is that the Harvard men had less reason to drown their grief than at the previous games for the Harvard team's heartening touchdown took the place of many a quart...