Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They tarried in Manhattan on their way to Washington. Manhattanites remarked that President Quezon was a cafe-au-lait replica of their small, garrulous Irish Mayor, James J. Walker. The likeness is more than skin-deep. Just as Mayor Walker is "Jimmie" to the Manhattan millions, President Quezon is "Manny" to the Filipinos and Filipinas. He has an extraordinary flair for popularity. Perhaps it is the Spanish blood in his veins that makes him an impassioned demagogue. He fought with Aguinaldo in the Insurrection, governed a province, served 10 years in Washington as Resident Commissioner and burns...
...mountebanks and spiritualists caused fear and contempt of hypnotism in the U. S. and brought about its practical divorce from medicine. Almost anyone can hypnotize another person, if the other is willing. Skilled and tactful hypnotists can put nine out of ten subjects into that deep pseudo-sleep. (Hypnosis is closely related to but not the same as sleep.) Automatic handwriting, mediumistic speech and the like phenomena of spiritualism can be rationally explained as exhibits of hypnotism. Stage magicians put their victims through all sorts of antics for the laughter and admiration of audiences.** Consequently U. S. people, even though...
Aftereffects. A person once hypnotized can usually be hypnotized again, with greater ease as the procedures are repeated. But his will is not weakened, nor is he apt to fall spontaneously into hypnosis. Unless he is predisposed, perhaps in deep subconsciousness, to improper acts, he will not follow the will of an unscrupulous operator...
...Paul Theodore Frankl* of the Frankl Galleries, Manhattan. Paul Theodore Frankl has designed "architectural" or "skyscraper" bookcases & dressing tables that tower in tiers, armchairs that are at once squat & graceful, a "step table" for books, and a "narrow chest of drawers" (5 ft. high, 8 in. wide, 12 in. deep). This furniture is intended for the smallish rooms of costly city flats. It is considered to be acceptable to the eye because "the exterior (skyscraper) architecture has developed a modern note of the most advanced sort and the eye is already trained to accept adaptions of this modern note within...
...vein of iron sentimentality; even in her bravest, there is a grimly sentimental irony. Yet sentimentality is only the approximate, not the exact word to describe a humanity that prevents each of Author Gale's terse episodes from being merely a brilliant chart of the disasters and deep triumphs of people in life...