Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be a pleasure for me if Anthropologist Hooton would relax and take a sea voyage. He has become ever so egotistical and intolerable of human failings. He has flowered beautifully in a Democracy-so much so that instead of correcting and constructing he has become like other Caesars- destructive...
Yale's performance against Princeton, a 26-0 win, to say nothing of the fact of Clint Frank's four touchdowns, one on the first play, gives Harvard little reason to relax during the coming week. Yale appears to be right in the prime and to have used the Princeton game as a great warming-up skirmish...
...Hygiene Department most of all, wants to take all the fun out of college. Amusing incidents, companionable joshing, and downright merriment are desirable, not only to make these four years memorable in later life, but to relax from the rigors of studying and even to make more digestible some of the dining hall meals. Dr. Bock and his associates are in full accord with keeping their undergraduate charges happy by jokes or any other decent means, for happiness and health go hand in hand. But so called humor with a cruel or perverted twist cannot be tolerated here...
Walter Gieseking, beginning a transcontinental jaunt this week, will bolster a touring pianistic lineup which is topped by Rachmaninoff and includes able Rudolf Serkin, Alexander Brailowsky. Hulking, oddly demure of face. Pianist Gieseking will reach California in December. There he likes to relax by hunting butterflies. Son of a German physician and entomologist, Gieseking has one of the largest privately owned collections of butterflies in Europe. He has detected resemblances between California butterflies and European species, believes their forebears migrated by way of Asia and Alaska thousands of years ago. Once Gieseking found six caterpillars in Berkeley, took them...
...dose of the Mexican drug peyote as a cure for dysentery. Awake all night, a clairvoyant vision showed her that "all this learning in the brain, and never in the blood was ended." In this mood even Maurice provoked "a tender, soft, sorry feeling"-though she did not relax her determination to kick him out. To make his going easier (for herself), she and Tony absented themselves at a Corn Dance. On their return Tony said, "I comin' here to this tepee tonight, when darkness here. That be right?" "And it was right," says 58-year-old Mabel Dodge...