Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...environment offered by the nursery school, Miss Johnson insiders the child's activities and materials, his relation to other children and to adults, and his introduction to language and rhythm. She explains now the nursery goes about its attempt to scale civilization down to the child level in its behavior demands and to open up wider opportunities for alive exploration than an adult world call afford...
...signed important papers without reading them, and while refusing to see the Confederate Commissioners, suffered them to tarry in Washington, where they were fed with all sorts of promises by Seward, his Secretary of State. What does James Schouler, a friendly historian say? It is that Lincoln's behavior through the month of March, 1861 was as "though he had no policy and was waiting for his Cabinet to form one for him." And yet this month was the crucial period of his administration, for the issue of peace or war was then decided...
...complying with the first and deliberately disobeying the second of these two injunctions for good behavior, Adolph Joseph Sabath, Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Chicago, has come to command a portion of fame and respect far larger than that delivered to the average man who is neither judge nor peacemaker. During his 20 years upon the bench it is claimed that he has tried more divorce suits than any other magistrate and effected more marital reconciliations. Last week, as usual, Judge Sabath's courtroom teemed with opportunities for making peace. On one day alone he found temporary remedies...
...surprise. Father Foley, their assistant pastor, surveyed them with a stern glance and said that in the future no woman who had paint upon her lips would be given holy communion from his hands. In sombre terms, such as his Pontiff recently used to condemn similar lapses in female behavior (TIME, May 14), Father Foley characterized the use of lipstick: "This practice is irreverent and unbecoming and I will not countenance...
...Orleans, because she was "crazy for adventure." She was in New York to testify to the innocence of the Sands' crew; she said the other four girl stowaways who were found on navy vessels had probably, like herself, been led only by their own inclination to such extravagant behavior...