Word: twins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...admirable coincidence of publication of the twin comments on Harvard sheds peculiar illumination on the nature of much criticism of America and her educational methods. The competence of the Englishman to judge a national problem of education that has neither parallel nor similarity throughout the world, is seriously to be questioned. It is fortuitously true in the present instance that an English student who spent a year at Princeton has signified faith in an achieved progress that seventy-five years before could only be hoped for by another Englishman who was, to say the least, conservative in his hopes...
...were McKinley, Hanna, Foraker, Hay. President Garfield's sons were still on the scene. John Sherman, Secretary of the Treasury, Senator, Secretary of State, did not die until 1900. Ohio politics was a vivid mixture of business (two parts), religion (two parts) and state pride (one part). The twin veins of politics and religion in Mark Hanna appeared as twin veins of business and religion in Ohio's great industrialists of that day, such as John D. Rockefeller of Cleveland and the Gambles and Procters of Cincinnati. A purer vein of religious sentiment was springing forth...
Identical twins are more conspicuous members of society. They are the mirror images of each other and all the world's their stage. The product of a single egg which sometime in the course of its development has divided, they are much alike in biological construction, as they are in appearance. There is a greater similarity between the corresponding hand or foot of each twin, than between the hands or feet of either...
Identical twins on the contrary are as alike mentally as physically whenever they are brought up together. Psychiatric literature is full of the case histories of identical twins stricken by the same psychoses at the same time. They have the same hallucinations, hear the same voices, suffer from the same delusions. No single instance has been found of one twin going insane while the other remained sane. Sometimes this has been shown to be the result of association, and separation in the ward has brought about changes in the character of the dementia. Would each have gone...
Veils. This is a play about twin sisters. One of them began her career in a convent and then, troubled and restless, sought the world. The other, a criminal woman, deserted the world after an erratic career and became entirely lulled by the soft silences of the nunnery. The play veered from beautiful and sensitive writing to a moral gibberish which can best be described as nunsense. The allegorical value of its eleven episodic scenes was of no great consequence. One or two of them, notably those which attempted to reproduce the atmosphere of a Catholic retreat, were thoroughly effective...