Word: brownings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great, sad eyes of liquid, melting brown turned last week in mute reproach upon the President of Austria, good Dr. Michael Hainisch, kindly, snowy-bearded and well beloved...
...brown eyes were those of Bella, a Swiss cow who is the pet & pride of President Hainisch. For years she has been the bovine sultana of his model dairy farm in Lower Austria. Cartoonists draw the President in company with Bella more often than they picture him alone. Yet last week Dr. Hainisch took firmly away from Bella with his own hand a small bell of solid gold which he had hung, two years ago, about her neck...
While the bell swung and tinkled beneath Bella's placid, munching mouth it signalized that no other cow in all Austria gave so much milk as she. Last week President Hainisch braved the sad, brown eyes of Bella and took away her bell because he had had tidings of a cow named Maria, owned by one Herr Kraft of Graz. This rival cow,, this upstart Maria, has produced this year 2,400 gallons of milk and bettered the record of Bella by several foaming pails...
...helping hand of hypnotism has long been recognized in medicine. Last fortnight it was lauded on opposite sides of the globe. Professor William Brown at Oxford University told in the second of the Terry lectures at Yale about curing alcoholics, drug addicts, shell shocked soldiers by hypnosis.* In Odessa, Russia, Dr. J. Kalachnik reported the successful use of hypnosis in childbirth...
...hypnotist can also induce emotional states that carry over into consciousness. He can tell Sam Brown that his good friend Oswald Schimmelpilz insulted him. After repeating this good news during several hypnoses Sam will have become convinced and, the first time he sees his good friend Oswald, will probably sock him on the nose...