Word: nasality
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...patients, Jacobson found a standard pattern: when children, they had rejected femininity as their mothers inadequately personified it, embraced masculinity as their amiable fathers represented it. Sometime during adolescence, they decided they wanted to be women after all. The resultant conflict, said Jacobson, was expressed by a sense of nasal deformity (even if a serious deformity did not exist), because the women identified their noses with those of their fathers, felt that they were distastefully masculine. Women patients often told Jacobson that their noses "would look better on a man's face"; a few went to considerable lengths...
...achieved professional success. Said Jacobson: "They came at a time when success in their chosen work highlighted a sense of frustration and block in their emotional capacity for dealing with courtship and marriage." Women over 30 also had a common motive: marital strain. "Correction of a longstanding sense of nasal deformity," said Jacobson, "is felt by these patients as a necessary preliminary to coping with the threat of depression evoked by their interpersonal difficulties...
...went to Heidelberg, earning his keep as a singer of Negro spirituals in a Bierstube. He and a brilliant young German student, Hermann Hille. worked out the formula for Argyrol, a mild silver protein solution for which doctors had many uses-to treat gonorrhea, including gonorrheal blindness, relieve severe nasal congestion. Argyrol, manufactured in a former flophouse in Philadelphia, was an instant and worldwide success, and Barnes was a million aire before he was 35. In 1928, with superb timing, Barnes sold out Argyrol for an estimated $4,000,000, not long before the discovery of antibiotics, which largely replaced...
...green "home" they had left half a world behind. To a surprising extent they succeeded. Because there was no local culture, not even the convenience of slaves, these blue-eyed Scots, Irish and English established a middle-class British society, mercantile, predominantly Protestant. The speech of Australia became a nasal offshoot of cockney, and at Christmastime Australians dutifully ate plum pudding in 100° heat. For England's "county" aristocracy, Australia substituted its own "squattocracy"-men who had carved out for themselves sheep or cattle stations the size of Maryland and sent their sons to Cambridge or Oxford...
...Chessman's mother was injured in an auto accident when he was nine, for the rest of her life was a chaired invalid, paralyzed from the waist down. And her son Carol (the Caryl spelling is his own invention) was sick and undersized, afflicted with bronchial asthma, chronic nasal congestion and a pale, dolorous, big-nosed, droop-lipped face...