Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back again by the 1935 storm, but in the three years since has blossomed as a resort, wintering 3,000 northerners, visited by 35,000 tourists. Deeply hurt were Key Westers last week to find that some visitors, who came in the first day's 1,100 automobiles, thought it necessary to bring cans filled with their own drinking water...
...some 200 psychologists, uncomfortably seated in a hotel ballroom, this aptly delivered diatribe evoked thunderous applause. The chairman genially announced, ''Mr. Rogosin has stuck his neck out," asked for comment. It quickly appeared that there were at least a half-dozen psychologists in the room who still thought ESP might be a reality. These arose, one by one, to criticize the critic. One charged him with not approaching the problem in a neutral spirit, with making his own arbitrary definitions of Science and Truth...
...nobody in Bug Tussle has a telephone. Almost everybody is almost everybody else's cousin. The citizens of Bug Tussle present a united front to the world. Two months ago two postal inspectors from Birmingham arrived to ask a few questions. It took rather longer than they thought, for nobody was at all cooperative. But last week they finally arrested seven people for using the mails to defraud...
...which supported the action of Police Commissioner Joseph F. Timilty in having a summons issued to a Boston newsdealer who defied the police warning, Chairman Henry J. Smith said last night: "We complimented Chief Timilty because we believed that the issue arouses morbid curiosity in children." Asked what he thought of the idea that the publication of childbirth information might make immoral girls think twice, Smith replied: "Well, there might be something to that...
Joseph Lee, Jr., only member of the School Committee opposed to backing Timility, thought it a shame to suppress "anything that might allow people to think and to keep their minds off such froth and foolishness as you find on every newstand." He added that the city officials behind the censorship of printed matter are "conservative and too apt to make a flight from life...