Word: ectoplasmically
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...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...
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...