Word: leonora
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James and his colleagues were always unmasking frauds, but a few clairvoyants performed feats they could not explain away. The most unnerving was Leonora Piper, a Massachusetts housewife who seemed sincerely perplexed by her powers as a medium and showed no interest in exploiting them. Time and again, while in an indisputable trance state, she told visitors details of their lives that seemed impossible for anyone but their dear departed to know...
...stories of dukes and butlers were deemed out of touch. "I sometimes wish I wrote that powerful stuff the reviewers like so much, all about incest and homosexualism," he half-joked. Wodehouse lived in near-seclusion in Long Island, New York, with his wife Ethel (their daughter Leonora died in 1944) as he ground out yet more tales of his fantasy world. Increasingly, as modern life coarsened and Cold War anxieties deepened, people decided they liked his world better than theirs. His countrymen eventually forgave his wartime indiscretions. He was granted a knighthood six weeks before he died. Today...