Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shall be personal. My wife spends too much money on her clothes. Our kitchen contains every machine known to man except an electric chair and the new Ford. She subscribes to TIME but I will cancel her subscription unless there is a speedy removal of this wretched innovation [FASH IONS...
...Fascist Grand Council, Prime Minister Benito Mussolini in the chair, met last week to listen patiently to the great words of their frowning leader...
...imported from England to play The Babe in Havoc. Later he supplied a brilliant Poet MarChbanks in Shaw's Candida. The faintly Galsworthian throes of this London hit give him opportunity to squirm and ogle with an excess of youth every time he sits down in a chair. The most finished performance is supplied by Ann Andrews, brought surprisingly into the second act to give the younger female fanatics the benefit of her life story. Her beauty and the sure delicacy of her acting lend a brief element of perfection to a comedy hampered by fitful mediocrity...
Technique. After a person has consented to hypnotization (and consent is practically always essential) the simplest procedure is to put him in an easy posture. An easy-chair is excellent, a bed less so because it takes practice to be at ease while in bed and with a relative stranger present. The patient fixes his eyes steadily upon an object placed so that he must strain his sight slightly. A monotonous sound, as from a metronome, drum or chant aids in putting him into somnolescence. The physician may pass his hands slowly and regularly before the staring eyes. But that...
...clock in the afternoon, tiptoed into a room, followed by the manager and a policeman. The room was in some disorder. Photographs were littered across the bed; a few had slid down to the floor. A picture of a girl was propped up on a chair near the window and in the corner three theatrical costumes were heaped on top of a trunk. A man was kneeling by the bed, .his hands stiffly and desperately twisted together, his head pushed down against his arms. He did not say anything when the three people came into the room. The policeman touched...