Word: crystallizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baron Beaverbrook's London Daily Express by intuitive Adolf Hitler's magnetic friend Dr. Ernst Franz Sedgwick ("Putzy") Hanfstaengl. The gigantic Nazi Doktor is given to moments of extreme nervous excitement which he calms by striding about his office and inhaling great whiffs from a small green crystal bottle of smelling salts. From TIME the Daily Express had picked up and reprinted the fact that Putzy in one of these nervous moments exclaimed to Manhattan Lawyer William Ormonde Thompson, onetime partner of Clarence Darrow: "Damn those Oxford professors! I will send some of our swine to burn down...
Postmaster General Farley: Jim has about the guile and predatory instinct of a big, honest, lumbering and friendly Newfoundland . . . the only "patronage" in either jobs or works which Jim is permitted to pass to the faithful is what is left after the starry-eyed socialicians, the crystal-gazing professors and the "liberal" monopolists of honesty get through passing the pie to the objects of their fondness, favor or philanthropy...
...ordinary; but these he prefers to call supernormal. They answer to "higher" psychic laws, would probably be objects of widespread scientific research if scientists were not afraid to confess how staggered they are by what goes on in seances. Mr. Carrington apparently accepts everything in the spiritualist showcases from crystal-gazing to astral projections and ghosts (which he prefers to call phantasms) on what he deems an overwhelming weight of sound evidence and reliable testimony...
...Four days later, to show the sort of party of which he really approves, the 100-odd war correspondents in Addis Ababa were invited to the royal palace for a European-style dinner. Newshawks ate civilized roast chicken from the royal gold plates, drank urbane champagne from the royal crystal glasses. It was scarcely His Majesty's fault that this exhibition of good taste was spoiled by the palace's electric lights going out several times in the course of the meal...
Noting that German crops were poor last year and that his Government suppressed mention of this fact at the time, the Little Man said with his crystal simplicity, "We can speak about...