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...following: "Psychology of the Mathematical Aptitude of Children", "Special Pedagogical Method". "The Crisis of Puberty", "Teachers and Educators", "School Museums", "Reaction Time in Tactile and Auditive Sensations", "Verbochromy" (dealing with the phenomena of the mental association of color and words). "Psycho-physiological Analysis of the Orthographic Aptitude", "Tut-Ank-Amen and the Oriental Civilizations". Professor Mercante has also composed a symbolic opera. "Frenos", which was successfully performed at the Colon Theatre of Buenos Ayres...
...wailing audience in the little Mount Olive (African Methodist Episcopal) Zion Church at Waterbury, Conn., last week. He rose to his toes and menaced the moaning Negroes with all the horrors of hell. Hysterical cries burst from the listeners: "That's right, preacher! Go on and preach, man! Amen, amen...
...notorious evangelist who inadvertently had chosen university election time to speak to the studentry. Pitifully, persistently she tried to make herself heard above the heckling din. Only when she said, "Let us pray," did the studentry bow their heads in real or simulated reverence. When the prayer came to Amen the divine interlude ended: smoke was blown in the McPherson's face and to it was offered many a beer...
...after Rosh Hashonah -on Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement), which begins at sunset Sept. 23. It is a vigil of fasting and repentance, to be concluded with the cry: "May he who maketh peace in his high places, make peace for us and for all Israel; and say ye, Amen...
...already eloquent in the jargon of eternal love and mortal lust, laying siege to little Lulu Bains, daughter of a deacon. Having seduced her, he is threatened with a wedding. But Elmer Gantry prays to God: "Show me some way out of this marriage, for Christ's sake, Amen." Sneering at his feeble victim, he escapes the nuptials by stamping out of the ministry to become a salesman of plows...