Word: automaton
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...eyes of the automaton glowed...
...dozen other questions and answers followed, some elaborately facetious. When May inquired what the automaton liked to eat, it responded with a minute-long discourse on the virtues of toast made with Macy's automatic electric toaster. Finally when May requested the creature to raise its arm and fire the pistol, the arm went up, the metal forefinger pulled the trigger, the firing-pin fell with a click. Professor May explained that store officials would not permit him to use blank cartridges...
...headache is not in every case a part of the migrainous attack. A person reasonably normal in emotional and psychic make-up may have periodic episodes in which he feels depressed, absentminded, confused. Things and ideas seem strange and unreal to him. He may act like an automaton, swear he is living in both the past and present simultaneously, add up two separate columns of figures at the same time. To be called migraine, such attacks must be short (not more than two days), periodic, not associated with unconsciousness...
...story is of an iron-willed woman who has reached the pinnacle of commercial success, but who in doing so has, to outward appearances, allowed the milk of human kindness to curdle. Her son she considers a weakling, and she is on the verge of making her daughter an automaton, trained to carry on the Green tradition of close-fisted, hard-hearted dealings. It happens that the son redeems himself, and the young girl's dormant emotions are awkened by the agency of Mr. James Hall, who, incidentally, turned in a rather flabby performance...
...cowardly, priggish hypocrite; when Sir James Latta gave him a job in India Brodie said good riddance. Only his youngest daughter Nessie found favor in his eyes: that was because she was bright in school. Brodie drove her to study every spare minute, deviled her into a learning automaton to win the famed Latta Prize, do the town...