Word: ectoplasm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like an invisible ectoplasm surrounded by devoted spiritualists, the credit of the Japanese Empire was under scrutiny last week in a hollow square of green-covered tables surrounded by the National Policy Council...
...case of Mr. Grew, though he is a Republican and cousin-by-marriage to J. P. Morgan, there is no incongruity whatever that he should be the President by a routine feat of diplomatic ectoplasm. Both men are Old Grotonians who have called each other "Joe" and "Frank" since boyhood. Both, too, are the rich sons of landed squires who sent them to Harvard as a matter of course. Yet the Forgotten Man is passionately sure that "Frank" Roosevelt remembers him. and "Joe" Grew has a like reputation among local U. S. residents of all classes wherever he has held...
Even this diplomatic ectoplasm was promptly challenged by ex-Brain-Trusty Raymond Moley. Speaking in Manhattan Professor Moley declared that the success of the President's recovery program demands the prop of selectively higher tariffs. "This has made it necessary," said Professor Moley, "to defer and perhaps to blast the hopes of old-fashioned Democrats who cherish the belief that social justice can only come through more international trade...
...each other's queerness. They become occasional companions though never intimates. Sir Bussy's intellect is insatiable, restless; he has the money to gratify his curiosity. When he decides to investigate spiritualism, he does it thoroughly, holding seances in specially-constructed laboratories. At one of these seances, "ectoplasm" from the medium takes independent shape, absorbs Mr. Parham, announces itself as the Lord Paramount, savior-dictator of England. Sir Bussy and his skeptical companions acknowledge the dictator, do his bidding. There is a coup d'état, Parliament is closed, England put under martial law. The Lord Paramount...