Word: strained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...title implies, the purpose of this book is to show that the present attitude of the churches in America is contrary to the framing of the Constitution and its guarantee of religious freedom. The author's attack is upon the fundamentalist strain, running through and dominating the chief Protestant churches of this country--not, he declares, from disagreement with the fundamentalist doctrine, but because of its attitude towards the individual. A large part of its book is taken up with facts supporting this contention. In the course of his discussion he is led naturally to the statement--that we never...
...spends long hours talking to them. On the night that Lethy, one of her half-sisters, kills the lover who has deserted her, Theodosia, seeing the parallel with her own experience, goes to the house made hateful to her by her father's unforgotten lusts. Under this final strain of horror, her mind crumbles into delirium. When she recovers, Theodosia goes to the country to live with her aunt. Here another nightmare threatens her with black hands. Her aunt, in the narrow bitterness of old age, sustains her hatred of life upon meager leathery biscuits. The house is overun...
...procedure is to put him in an easy posture. An easy-chair is excellent, a bed less so because it takes practice to be at ease while in bed and with a relative stranger present. The patient fixes his eyes steadily upon an object placed so that he must strain his sight slightly. A monotonous sound, as from a metronome, drum or chant aids in putting him into somnolescence. The physician may pass his hands slowly and regularly before the staring eyes. But that is unessential. Mesmerists used to believe that waving fingers diffused a sort of magnetism into...
Fradd traces the origin of the posture classes, which were first given at the University in 1919, to experience gained in the World War, when many men broke down under the strain of war service, and had to be built up by special exercises in camps established behind the lines in France. Exercises developed at that time proved effective in restoring health to men whose faulty body balance was responsible for a low grade of health...
...busy-buzzing week at the White House, cramjam full of people and small incidents yet free from the strain of any really pressing situations. President Coolidge seemed exceptionally affable-save for a moment here & there (see "FESS INCIDENT")-and unwontedly loquacious-except at times such as when onetime (1919-21) Governor Henry J. Allen of Kansas talked at length about the necessity of President Coolidge's renomination. The President's sole reply to his caller's long speech was: "How's crops...