Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Psychiatry, as its specialists demonstrated at St. Louis last week, has not grown up into a clean-cut profession. The specialists showed more skill in discovering mental and emotional defects than in remedying them. In particular they seemed lost in the woods of psychobiology. According to this conception, which Dr. Adolf Meyer of Baltimore created, the well-rounded physician should simultaneously treat the mind, soul and body of each patient. To do the job well the physician must learn how each factor of that trinity affects the other in health and disease. Among consequences of Dr. Meyer's teachings...
High-minded sportswriters who sputtered indignantly at these revelations forgot what revolutionary changes had occurred in a sport which now grosses $5,000,000 a year from the U. S. public. In the days of Farmer Burns and Frank Gotch wrestling was, indeed, an exhibition of skill and strength. When Ed ("Strangler") Lewis, Stanislaus Zbyszko and Joe Stecher began to trade their "world championships" with peculiar regularity, U. S. fans became perturbed. In the 1920's the sport sank deep in the doldrums...
...atmosphere is handled with rare skill; the minor characters have an individuality all their own. As Carol, Josephine Hutchinson is delightful, save for a certain thrilled ecstasy introduced in irrelevant scenes. The doctor is done by Pat O'Brien, with a stupid tenderness that is positively intelligent, but Ross Alexander as Eric is quite uncalled-for; since his last role he has managed to put still another hot potato in his mouth...
Parade. Then they all went out to review a sample parade of the new German Army, Adolf Hitler's gift to the German people. While the band played Deutschland über Alles and mounted kettledrummers performed traditional feats of skill, 350 light whippet tanks camouflaged ready for action rolled down Unter den Linden and the Charlottenburger Chaussée. Behind came yellow and green armored cars filled with riflemen; armored motorcycles; machine-gun companies; anti-aircraft batteries with searchlights and direction finders; motorized heavy artillery and, to show that the Army is also ready for the swamps of Eastern...
BEYOND SING THE WOODS-Trygve Gulbranssen-Putnam ($2.50). The saga of a powerful Norwegian family which dominates the countryside, partly through superstition, partly through usury. Skill in narration, a lyric prose, an interesting milieu, save the novel from childishness by a narrow margin...