Word: unstrung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ferry concession was immediately rented for an annual sum of 30 pounds. After eight years of difficulties with the concession, the two gentlemen who had rented it surrendered their title, explaining to the Court that what little payment actually was made by passengers was in "refuse, unwrought, broken, unstrung, and unmerchantable peag wampum." Later in the same year President Dunster informed the Court that "all the bad and unfinished wampum made by the Indians finds its way into the college treasury from ferry toll." Nevertheless, Harvard held on to the concession and its returns until 1785, when the first toll...
...usual, Danny Kaye is really the whole show. His straight patter numbers (the most ambitious is Symphony for Unstrung Tongue) seem a little less funny as the years go by; but his dreamlife parodies of heroism are in every sense out of this world...
...Little, Too Few. There are only 4,000 psychiatrists in the U.S. to help unstrung people out of their mental muddles. Only 4% of the current medical-training curriculum is devoted to psychiatry. Spending on mental disease is comparatively low: according to A.P.A., U.S. citizens lay out $100 per case per year for polio research v. a measly 25? per case for psychoneurosis...
...wrote to Dorothy Dix, Anne Hirst, Beatrice Fairfax, et al., to ask what to do about a boy of eleven who was unstrung, disobedient and disrespectful, who stole and refused to do homework. (She took these symptoms from an actual case, whose real trouble, she explains, was that he was unloved.) Some suggested punishment or a stiff school far from home. Beatrice Fairfax sternly warned against psychiatry. Elsie Robinson (author of I Wanted Out) gave what Mrs. Steiner considers the only ethical answer: "The problem of a disobedient child is far too delicate and complicated to be solved...
...Mitsukoshi depato (department store) which had boasted an American-style drugstore and a soda fountain featuring banana splits, now offered an odd assortment of unwanted goods-violin bows, pottery goldfish, bronze sparrows, unstrung tennis rackets and women's hats...