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...Public Domain", Professor Burbank, Harvard...
...back door of the Psychological Clinic. It is known that abnormal psychology deals with the subject of hypnotism, and hypnotism has its parentage rooted in charlatanism and black magic. Sex and other so-called "Freudian material" tabooed by squeamish and soft-boiled natures are included in this domain. There is a rumor abroad, moreover, that psychopathology advocates the removal of repressions; the very repressions which all parents in an attempt to subdue "Old Adam" have so diligently planted and nurtured in the minds of their children. It is supposed that psychoanalysis in the Samuel Butler manner cries "J'accuse...
...official domain, Secretary Mellon reported that the public debt had been cut by $905,883,703 in fiscal 1928. The movement of gold from the U. S. was reflected in a decline of 108.8 millions in the Treasury's bullion & coin, and a decrease of 324.3 millions in the bullion & coin held by the Treasury for the Federal Reserve Board...
...might need pruning. Even now, at 73, he ministers to favorite trees from the ground, with a long pruning-saw, much resembling a medieval spear. As he prowls, thus accoutred, around his excessively historic Glamis Castle, romantic persons enjoy fancying that the Earl resembles an early owner of his domain, King Macbeth of Scotland (reigned 1040-57), who, as Shakespeare has told, murdered King Duncan in Glamis Castle...
...nearby Yorktown. The visiting celebrity greeted the fabulous benefactor with a nice mixture of thanks, congratulations and vivacity; she suggested one change in the plans, which Mr. Rockefeller promptly adopted. She hoped she would see him at the Governor's Ball. But some other necessity in his vast philanthropic domain recalled Mr. Rockefeller to New York. Lady Astor moved on through the State, marvelling that she had never seen that section of it before. Richmond, where she used to live, is only 40 miles from Williamsburg. But, she explained, "there were no roads in those days...