Word: ectoplasmically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other journal will defend Boston's single woman of spirit, the Crimson must remain a single champion of local genius. In a lady ectoplasm cannot be treated lightly...
...Walter Prince, head of the Boston Society for Psychic Research: "Cameras were used at sittings for 20 years before an ectoplasmic apparition appeared on one of them. The spirits present before that time [i. e. when ectoplasm was first photographed] evidently did not take." He also cited the fact that Britishers have taken "ectoplasm pictures" without special lenses and shutters. But Dr. Prince refuted for spiritualists the Jastrow charge of "wishful thinking," pointing out that a will to disbelieve is no more scientific than a will to believe...
...Stewart Edward White, big game hunter and author, has described ectoplasmic emanations which were invisible even in the dark, which were felt as cold areas near the medium. If ectoplasm was pinched, the medium exclaimed and clasped herself...
...spring comes slowly up this way and you find yourself wandering about murmuring "O, to be in England now that spring is here", go to the Repertory by all means. Let your romantic soul be frightened almost out of its ectoplasm for fear the girl win do "The Right Thing" instead of running away from her furniture collecting husband of 40. Hope against hope and in the end wander out into the night again and down Huntington Avenue murmuring "There is a God." You old softie...
...Harry Houdini at Symphony Hall last winter, mediums, mind readers, and fortune tellers have invariably been discovered as false. Mr. Dunworth cited the interesting case of Mrs. Thompson, a well known medium who professed to be capable of producing a mysterious substance from the spirit world which she called Ectoplasm. At one of her seances she unfortunately wrapped the Ectoplasm around the neck of an extreme skeptic. The suspicious gentleman promptly bit into the substance to discover its nature, whereupon Mrs. Thompson screamed and retired to nurse the teeth marks in her arm. It appears to be true, according...