Word: ectoplasmically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even photographs of ectoplasm, Dr. McDougall questioned. He implied that a close examination would reveal that the substance was actually some organism such as the "lung of some animal, surgical manipulated so as to resemble roughly in shape a human hand...
...Spiritualist. Spooks were always among Doyle's chief interests. The later years of his life have been almost wholly devoted to studying psychic phenomena and broadcasting his conclusions. He assures the reader that he has chatted with spirits, held their hands, smelt ectoplasm, seen prophecies fulfilled, seen heavy objects flying about, heard supernatural whistling and singing...
...quite memorize his lines and, therefore, "with the most fertile invention posted prompters under tables, behind rocks or ancient oaks, so that the elusive word might be whispered to him as he moved in well disguised anguish from cache to cache,-a curious floating method not unlike that of ectoplasm"; lovable, whimsical Barrie, the little master of Thrums, of whom the story is told that once, wandering over to Bernard Shaw's table in the coffee room of his club and seeing the remarkable mess upon which Shaw was browsing, he asked in an alarmed and Scottish whisper...
There is a temptation to say that they are merely a few of the "doubting Thomases" who make up the over-whelming majority of a skeptic world. Sir Oliver Lodge and Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle have not yet persuaded the rest of humanity of the reality of ectoplasm, even though they have secured many staunch followers for their ideas. Nobody really knows one way or the other that is admitted. Everyone is interested in the idea of thought-transference and future existence--man may be said to have incurably necromantic tendencies--but unless the knightly necromancers establish something definitely soon...
...Although fraudulence has been proved in many cases, there have been instances of seemingly genuine phenomena. Most authorities still agree that there is a case for investigation. The latest and most fashionable phenomena are those dealing with ectoplasm. It is a subject which has startled some of the most cold blooded investigators. Ectoplasm is the name given to the apparition of some vague white substance, which seems to exude from the body of the medium and then to assume shapes recognizable as the images of deceased persons. Investigation may reveal a new form of trickery...