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Tics, or habitual spasms of certain muscles, are another nervous derangement of childhood. The child may shake his head, nod, frown, scowl, blink, grimace, twist his mouth, sniff, hack, swallow, cough, sigh, hiccough, wiggle his ears, jerk his limbs, scratch himself. Tiqueurs are seldom less than six years old. They usually also suffer from personality disorders?restless-ness, self-consciousness, over-ambitiousness. Curing a child of a tic, Dr. Kanner finds is a difficult task. The more a child's attention is called to his tic, the less likely the tic will disappear. Overactive children should be given quiet recreations...
...included himself and his wife, has gaily jumbled Charlie Chaplin on roller skates, Mickey Mouse, Mutt ;; Jeff, Shakespeare's Bottom, Will Rogers, Popeye the Sailor. In Tragedy Uncle Tom prays by the bedside of Little Eva, Hamlet sulks, Lady Macbeth sleepwalks, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Eugene O'Neill scowl, Aerialist Lillian Leitzel drops from her circus partner's arms to death...
...almost unlimited powers" under "the pending Industrial Regulation Bill." As administrator of the Wartime Draft General Johnson had enjoyed publicity aplenty, but since then he had been out of sight in the news. After June 16, when the Recovery Act was signed, Man of the Year Johnson's scowl his broad mouth and furrowed brow his pithy epithets, the daily state of his health and temper, made acres of newspictures, miles of news copy every 24 hours. He was not the Administrator of NRA He was NRA. In plotting their common course through the last six months...
...desk, a gift from Premier Daladier of France to the 32nd U. S. President. When newshawks tiled into President Roosevelt's office to pop their questions one morning, one chirped, "What about the monetary policy?'' The President's face assumed a heavily humorous scowl. He turned to an aide. "Hand me that sword!" he commanded. That same day the Treasury announced its refunding program, promised sound money at least until April. ¶ Opening the "Four Weeks 1933 Mobilization for Human Needs," the President announced by radio: "It is true that I have declared that government must...
Velvet Glove, There are two ways to play the Dictator. One may adopt the thundering voice and the imperial scowl like Benito Mussolini and his unsuccessful imitator Adolf Hitler, or one may pull the wires of diplomacy with the velvet gloves of a Metternich or Machiavelli. Soft-spoken General von Schleicher prefers velvet gloves. He still smiles and tells jokes, likes to stand shyly in the back row in group photographs of the Cabinet. He dislikes announcements and interviews. Last week when cornered by the New York Times Correspondent Frederick T. Birchall he was careful to doff his uniform...