Word: houdini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Houdini was equal to the occasion: "You're not a medium, and anyhow you ought to know what's in the telegram, you sent...
...Harry Houdini appeared as a witness before the House Committee of the District of Columbia, which was holding hearings on a bill to regulate clairvoyants, "mediums," etc., in the District of Columbia. In the back of the room sat several mediums. As a climax to his denunciation of their trickery, Mr. Houdini drew a telegram from his pocket, crushed in his hand and dashed it down upon the table before...
...Jane B. Coates, of the "Spiritualist Church of America," asserted: "I have saved many young girls from marrying the wrong man and have kept others from going wrong. My religion goes back to Jesus Christ. Houdini does not know I am a Christian...
...Houdini. The man of mystery is in town for a limited engagement in a show all his own. There are, to be sure, certain interludes for singers and dancers and comedy while Houdini is upstairs changing his strait-jacket for the next escape. But the magician is the main spring of entertainment, and powerfully so. He gets out of the most hideous torture machines and performs the most incredible miracles. He includes a revelation of the practices of fake mediums (all mediums are fake according to Houdini). The show will be on the road all the rest of the season...
Having tried out (unsuccessfully) for the $2,500 prize of The Scientific American (TIME, Feb. 23) for "proof of spooks," and having quarreled with Harry Houdini the Handcuff King (who claimed to have "shown her up"), Margery was invited to perform for a committee of experts at the Harvard University psychological laboratories. Scientists of no small account attended the seances-Drs. Harlow Shapley (astronomer), S. B. Wolbach (pathologist), W. J. V. Osterhout (botanist), Edwin G. Boring, William McDougall and Hudson Hoagland (psychologists...