Word: psychiatrist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outdoing all other sonnet writers in volume, anyway Merrill Moore, Boston psychiatrist, WPA director, and teacher at the Harvard Medical School, is about to publish 1,000 of the 50,000 (50,000) sonnets he has composed in his 35 years...
...have had two years at college and nine years of secretarial-stenographic experience. I have worked regularly as secretary for the medical director of an insurance company, two sales (engineering) executives, an author, and an engineer; and as substitute secretary for a publisher, psychiatrist, eye specialist, architect and columnist. In addition to my secretarial duties I have in many instances done some employing, assisted in the management of the office and absorbed many of the details, including the handling of a large part of the correspondence without dictation...
Selected and captioned by Dr. Lauretta Bender, senior psychiatrist in the children's division, and hung in the Federal Art Project's Harlem Art Center, the exhibition last week embraced two clinical extremes: drawings by moronic children, unable to complete even primitive images, and monstrous figures drawn by patients with ''general paralysis of the insane." In between were works by children and adults of varying aptitude, suffering from various disorders...
...telling stories. Instead of doing calisthenics, they play games. Result of all this is that a modern Progressive school is noisy, apparently chaotic, but pupils are too busy to be naughty. When they are naughty or sulky, they are sent not to a be-ferruled principal but to a psychiatrist, who tries to find out what is wrong at home...
Young Dr. Merrill Moore of Boston is known as a psychiatrist, semiprofessional swimmer and author of 25,000 good and bad sonnets. With all his zest for life, Dr. Moore is most interested in the problem of suicide, has collected many scientific facts on this phenomenon. Last week in The New England Journal of Medicine he discussed the agent most commonly used by would-be suicides: iodine...