Word: childhood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Currently published is a book called The Psychology of Happiness by Professor Walter B. Pitkin of Columbia University.* Therein it is stated that Woodrow Wilson had, from childhood, "a constitutional infirmity which he struggled to hide and did hide with such cunning the world never suspected it." This was "the first-and perhaps most poisonous-virus of his unhappiness...
...Enough to say that it was of a sort that caused a slight but almost continuous discomfort and at times a serious nervous upset, from childhood to the day of his death. It prevented the little boy from playing football, baseball, and all other strenuous games. And it probably was a factor in causing his terrible headaches, his still more terrible temper, his ghastly dyspepsia, and his nightmares...
Architect Wright was born in 1869 on a Wisconsin farm where he spent his precocious childhood tending sheep. With no formal education he informally studied engineering at the University of Wisconsin. Although he received no degree he became unusually proficient in that profession. Twenty years ago his reputation in architecture was worldwide...
William Hesketh Lever was born in Bolton, Lancashire in a three-story brick building the natural unloveliness of which was later emphasized by the addition of an extremely inappropriate bay-window. His earliest childhood recollection (1854) was the burning in effigy of Emperor Nicholas of Russia, for at that time the Crimean Wrar was going on and it appeared extremely important that the Russians should not take Constantinople. His father, James Lever, had risen from a grocer's apprentice to a retail and finally to a wholesale grocer. The family was solvent rather than affluent and William's boyhood allowance...
...William Max Wundt's first pupils. Later he married the daughter of a Schleswig-Holstein publisher, and did newspaper work himself. On the Frankfurter Zeitung he ridiculed the late Count Ferdinand Zeppelin's dirigible plans, recanted, joined the Zeppelin company, learned navigation, of which he had some skill from childhood at his native town of Flensburg...