Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jovial, deep-voiced, sixtyish J. Stanley Smith, a Philadelphia lawyer, called his garrulous group to order in the Penn Athletic Club one night last week. It was the 17th anniversary banquet of his exclusive Kingsley Club, restricted to stammerers. The program: speeches...
...trouble singing. One day when he heard Clergyman-Novelist Charles Kingsley, a stammerer, preach and sing without a hitch, he had an idea. Stammerer Smith cured himself, formed the Kingsley Club, enrolled Philadelphians and New Yorkers (mostly businessmen) and set out to cure them of stammering. He gave them deep breathing exercises and "inspiration." had them pronounce words slowly and rhythmically to the beat of a metronome. Then he stood them before an audience to talk. His method worked so well that today his club has 350 members, many of them now ex-stammerers...
...about their tastes; in fact, they are usually a little patronizing toward persons who do not share them. But in the days of Henry Van Dyke, Theodore Roosevelt, and Novelist Ralph Connor (The Sky Pilot, The Man from Glengarry], an intellectual who liked to fish felt compelled to discover deep political, moral, social and physical values in fishing, and the literature of that period is filled with accounts of wastrels who quit drinking after a period in the woods, of sick men who got back their health stalking deer, of cynics who got back their faith riding canoes down foaming...
...This "deep immersion" in our cultural history would equip each man to lead a free and healthy emotional, life, and would prove the best defense against the insidious propaganda of the present...
...Lecture Hall last week, however, at about 12:30, with the proctors taking a deep breath in order to inform the writers, that contrary to the usual rules, there was an hour still left, the solution was found...