Word: ectoplasmically
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FOUNDATION GARMENTS. "As is well known, the manufacturer's terminology frequently has overtones of sexual innuendo. The 'ectoplasm' technique by which the garment is shown alone in motion probably is the least offensive demonstration method. The employment of an arrow, a dotted line or a pointer to show specific features is far preferable to the human hand...
...Verbal Ectoplasm. "He is vigorously welcomed at the station by an earnest, crew-cut platoon of giant collegiates, all chasing the butterfly culture with net, notebook, poison-bottle, pin and label, each with at least 36 terribly white teeth, and nursed away, as heavily gently as though he were an imbecile rich aunt with a short prospect of life, into a motorcar in which, for a mere 50 miles or so traveled at poet-breaking speed, he assures them of the correctness of their assumption that he is half-witted by stammering inconsequential answers in an over-British accent...
...really wants to take from him is his inmost self, his individual reality. The struggle is conducted in quasi-metaphysical colloquies through Dr. Bab-itch, "an impersonal emanation of a depersonalized office which in turn stems from another office, and so on, in concentric circles, up to the very ectoplasm, the super-Babitch." What Pierre means by "being no one." i.e., belonging to the City, is what Babitch means by "being." He tries to make Pierre accept the proposition, "I crawl, therefore I am." Against all pressure, Pierre resists, for he knows that to agree...
...collection shows that it takes more than furry ectoplasm to make a first-class story. Good as the day it was written (1902) is W. W. Jacobs' The Monkey...
...existed that they could not duplicate by plain trickery. They showed how clammy "spirit hands" (that brushed the brows of spectators at dark séances) were concocted out of paraffin or simply from "a kid glove filled with wet sawdust . . . kept on ice." One piece of so-called "ectoplasm" ("ectopiffle would be a better name," remarked a surly magician) proved to be a chunk of animal lung. The only "spirit body" that Rinn failed to duplicate was that of a "baby" which, in a dim light, a famous woman medium of the '80s used to permit patrons...