Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There has been much wholesale criticism of psychopathology on the part of the professors of psychology, but it safe to say that not one of them has ever enjoyed the experience of watching the language of gesture and listening to the free talk of a case of obsessional neurosis day after day for a year or more. In the presence of the insane a professor of psychology is no more at home than a country boy on his maiden voyage at sea, or a savage in the presence of an eclipse of the sun. It is a common error...
Last night, Mayor Nichols declined to name any of the board members, although he said their decision would be announced tomorrow; neither did he say whether the members were policemen or dramatists. This board may deliver an ultimatum as to certain lines which must be cut before presentation, or it may refuse to allow the play in Boston on any conditions...
...made such a mess of guiding the world in the ways of peace and civilization. The Rhodes Scholars have the will to serve society as well as they can, but society must be willing to be served by them. To our friends the constructive critics, one would like to say that they must exercise patience. Three years at Oxford cannot turn even an able and gifted man into a world-conqueror. It can make even a dull and prejudiced man realize that national animosities spring from misunderstanding and unwillingness to entertain a more humane view of international relations. An Oxford...
...Say the Friends: "We do not set anyone apart whose special duty it is to supply the spoken word in our meetings. . . . the experienced speaker should be watchful not to speak at undue length."-(The Book of Discipline.) The committee of overseers has the responsibility of insuring at each meeting the presence of some person of whose inner urge to vocal ministry it is reasonably sure...
...They say that Poincare told Chiappe to raid the peep shows because the Government thought they were giving Paris a bad name. Most of them were run by Algerians or Levantines or Greeks. Of course Chiappe hasn't interfered with the regular, licensed-maisons kept and patronized by the French themselves. He has been out after the tourist show places...