Word: daydreams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They are good at handling complaints. They are conservative, cautious, prefer not to make plans alone, would not like to be criminal lawyers or stockbrokers, seldom try to bluff their way past doormen. They like clergymen and teetotalers more than the other groups do; are not inclined to daydream; resent criticism. They rather like to argue which they do without losing their tempers...
...Valentine Ujhely of Manhattan as follows: Victim wraps his head in thick gauze, stretches out on couch. Phonograph plays soft symphonic music. Dr. Ujhely squirts two-three drops of jasmine or tuberose perfume on the masked face every minute for almost an hour. By & by the patient finds himself daydreaming. A gong softly gongs -signal for the patient to daydream about something else. Gong, gong, gong-reveries change. GONG-the patient deliberately muses about his nightmare, tells it to do its worst, "you're only a dream...
...Love is an ambitious attempt to transpose the old sweet song into what traditional troubadours will call a purely imaginary key. Author Breuer is a woman but she writes her story in the masculine first person. Her feminine peers may see in her novel the projection of a feminine daydream : how it would feel to be a lady-killer...
...world. And then suppose that one day you discovered that you were not quite alone after all, that somebody else was in the store too. These are the presumptions Author Cozzens makes the reader swallow. Once they are accepted, the rest of the circumstantial tale follows as nightmare the daydream. Able Author Cozzens always takes a leaf out of some good notebook. This time it is from Edgar Allan Poe's, Ambrose Bierce's, Daniel Defoe...
...class" magazine for men-like Harper's Bazaar and Vogue for women- has long been a publisher's daydream. Last week it appeared. Its name: Esquire, "The Quarterly...