Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...solemn in this joyous week, Netherlanders were rocking with laughter in their cafés at Dutch wags who thought up elaborate jokes like this: A man keeps his hat on as others take theirs off to toast Princess Beatrix, then, just as people begin to give him angry looks, takes off his hat and reveals he is wearing a "baby" hat underneath exactly resembling its "parent...
...days, Patient Carlin had spent 31? (all the money he had) for newspapers, had taken to playing checkers with fellow inmates, had dropped his depressed air. "But the more natural I acted," he said, "the wackier they thought I was." At the end of ten days, Patient Carlin was losing sleep, losing his appetite for the drab, saltless food, and began to realize that his surroundings were having no good effect on him. As a voluntary patient he petitioned for release, saying he felt much better. Rockland's officials told him that he was an incipient dementia praecox victim...
...last week Oliver Carmichael thought he knew very definitely what Vanderbilt and Southern education need: money. He proposed that Vanderbilt and Peabody, which have a close working partnership, enlarge their graduate department to give doctors' degrees in at least 15 fields. And he bluntly informed the South that it should stop depending on the gifts of Northern capitalists, should pay its own educational...
...Barnes tom-toms, was quietly preparing its 133rd annual exhibition of U. S. art. At the other end of the parkway from the museum, the academy last week remained equally remote from the attentions of Dr. Barnes and the Artists' Union. First visitors to the exhibition, however, thought that past criticisms from both sources had perhaps stimulated the academy's most vivid and inclusive show in years...
...really amazing fellow Is our Mayor, the good Fiorello-When his views are sought He expresses each thought By emitting a furious bellow...