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...chiropractors who, as the American Bureau of Chiropractic, met in Manhattan last week, saw no fun in the pun and joke played on them by the new Encyclopedia Britannica. Explained therein in immediate sequence are Chiromancy (Palmistry), Chiron (centaur wise in healing), Chiropodist, Chiropractic, Chiroptera (Bats). In chronicling Chiropractic the Encyclopedia commits one of its numerous errors. It pronounces B. J. Palmer the chief founder of the movement. The late Daniel David Palmer laid the foundations of chiropractic (1895). Bartholomew Josiah Palmer, his son, founded the Palmer School of Chiropractic...
MERMAID AND CENTAUR-Rupert Hughes-Harpers...
...centaur Nessus is galloping through a stream with Deianira on his back. He is holding with both hands the frightened woman, whose transparent white garments flutter in the wind. She is wrestling to get free from the grip of the centaur. To the right on the shore stands Hercules, stretching his bow ready to send an arrwo into the centaur. He is a nude athlete with intense 'tactile value,' the whole figure having the tension of a steel spring strained to the limit. The very extensive landscape which is dominated by the winding river, represents a view of the Arno...
...Martin Secker; "Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious," New York (1921), Thomas Seltzer; "Sea and Sardinia," New York (1921), Thomas Seltzer; "Aaron's Rod," New York (1922), Thomas Seltzer; "Fantasia and the Unconscious," New York (1922) Thomas Seltzer; "Glad Ghosts," Ernest Benn (1926); "Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine," Centaur-Press (1925); "The Plumed Serpent," London (1926), Martin Secker; "St. Maur, together with the Princess," London (1925), Martin Secker...
...Yale, Sport-Writer W. O. McGeehan and Actress Genevieve Tobin, Dr. Frank Crane and Critic Baird Leonard of Life. At these, in the pairs named, and at other notables, they directed a rushing stream of questions: "What style of writing did the early Babylonians use?" "What is coral? . . . a centaur? . . . a Bunsen burner? . . . the longest bridge in the world?" "How do kangaroos carry their offspring?" "What is a morganatic marriage ? " "Who was the 'Wild Bull of the Pampas'?" Each pair of experimentees answered a separate set of 50 questions. The lowest score, 61%, was made by Dr. John...