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There has been much wholesale criticism of psychopathology on the part of the professors of psychology, but it safe to say that not one of them has ever enjoyed the experience of watching the language of gesture and listening to the free talk of a case of obsessional neurosis day...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Murray Describes Department of Abnormal Psychology | 1/12/1929 | See Source »

Speakeasy hostesses, as Americanized Japanese know, are uncouth, unskilled, uneducated wenches, frequently unwashed, unshriven and ashamed of themselves.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Geisha v. Fourteen | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

The Story: Of all human desires none find more panders than the desire to deceive, to make a false effect. For those who are unbeautiful, chemists have always been able to find, in paint and rouge, a cunning disguise; powder has permitted the dirty to remain unwashed and undetected; wigs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Progress: In the Parlor | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

One of "The great unwashed,"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 23, 1927 | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

¶ In 1834, Palmerston shocked England by opposing compulsory chapel at Cambridge. "Is it either essential or expedient that young men should be compelled to rush from their beds every morning to prayers, unwashed, unshaved, and half dressed; or, in the evening, from their wine to chapel, and from chapel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Books | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

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