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...light of a thousand candles, lived and worked the other unfortunate inmates of the vast and awe-inspiring edifice. Unfortunate they were indeed to be called, for not one of them who appeared smiling and joyous but wore his smile as a mask to counterfeit his humour, and feign a satisfaction which in reality he had no hope of possessing. Indeed, each as he worked was occupied with such melancholick reflections as might have befitted Panterias the sage, when the future course of his life was revealed to him by the haruspex; as that all the labors of the scholar...
...here come hired youths and maids that feign to love...
...follows the standard rules of presidential politics (TIME, Nov. 24), a candidate for the White House will never publicly appear to seek office. Aloof and silent, he will feign indifference while his friends build up sufficient popular sentiment to give his candidacy the appearance of a draft movement. But last week in Maryland Dr. Joseph Irwin France, one time (1917-23) Republican Senator, reversed the usual procedure by announcing his candidacy for the nomination against President Hoover next year. Truthfully he added that he had no promises what ever of public support. As the first step in his campaign...
Throughout last week the man who wanted to stay at Malmaison sought to feign madness before a trinity of famed French psychologists, Professors Truelle, Claude and Heuyer. Their verdict: "M. Klotz presents no signs of mental illness. Nothing indicates that he was in an unbalanced condition at the moment when the acts were committed. He is therefore responsible and must render an accounting for these acts...
Readers of Stevenson will recall, in "The Master of Ballantrae", the Hindu servant who taught his master to feign death by "swallowing his tongue". The experiment, in that case, was not altogether successful, and the author leaves doubt as to whether the Hindu really remained alive, after two week's burial in the ground, or not. But the trick was founded on an actual oriental superstition, of which many others have likewise appeared to baffle "civilized" doctors. Perhaps later investigators, like this Frenchman, will not only explain them by natural laws rather than supernatural, but also apply them usefully...