Word: medium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chauncey B. Brewster), able and popular Yale professor, interpreter of Boswell, read an address by Thomas L. Raymond, Mayor of Newark, N. J., in the latter's enforced absence. Wrote Mayor Raymond: "The task of the Catholic Church today is to create an age of faith through the medium of an order of celibate preachers...
...statement in your otherwise excellent article on "Margery the Medium" in your issue for October 29, gives a rather erroneous impression as to Mr. Code's motives in acting as an "accomplice" during the last seance. This can best be corrected by a quotation from the original records...
...commission up to the time of sailing. Correspondents, eager for an official announcement, were ingeniously informed that "Count Volpi owes it to the American Debt Commission, as an act of deference, to inform it of Italy's proposals by word of mouth instead of through the medium of the press...
Another chapter came to light in the exoteric history of "Margery" (Mrs. L. R. G. Crandon), Boston medium...
...their forelocks, bantered them, played checkers with (and beat) one of them, lifted weights (a corresponding increase in Margery's weight being observed when he did so), rang a bell-and disappeared when the lights went up. During his "presence," the observers beheld strange luminosities about the medium and a translucent material shape, like an arm, cold and clammy (said one) "as an eel's heel," was seen, measured (against a radium-painted board) and felt. Warned that violence to this "emanation" would seriously injure the entranced medium, none of those present employed the obvious investigatory stratagem...