Word: medium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Here in the middle of Central Africa TIME is the one medium that I depend on to bring me news of the outside world. Missing a copy is a source of keen disappointment, and this prompts me to write and ask if you cannot send the copies of my subscription in stronger wrappers. A journey of 14,000 or more miles, with frequent changes from steamer to rail to native porterage, demands a much stronger wrapper than that you have been using. I have missed several copies and had others arrive in wrappers practically torn off. I should appreciate attention...
...public cannot be denied. Alexander Woollcott put his discerning finger on the secret when he called the play a great love story. That it undoubtedly is, and as such must gain an inevitable and not unmerited popularity. But Mr. Arlen is not dealing in a new, smart medium as the world believes. It is love and sacrifice that makes The Green Hat good entertainment; not wit and glittering philosophy...
...dead" as "egotistical". There was laying of wreaths on the grave of the Unknown Soldier, ("They live always," read Sir Conan Doyle's wreath. "There is no death; there are no dead," read that of Mrs. M. D. Cadwallader of Chicago.); and there was denunciation of medium-denunciators such as Harry Houdini, the skeptical handcuff king...
Kissing Ghost. There was Madeleine, for instance, an amorous apparition, whose medium was a rough country cartman with a thick blond mustache. Delegate Thibault, who related Madeleine's doings, said he thought she was a materialization of a 19-year-old girl who died in 1908. She was summoned, he explained, by an arrangement of red lights and phosphorescent screens, which went sailing around the room when she had begun to osculate. She was quit partial to a member of the Portuguese delegation (on the cheek), but often stayed with Delegate Thibault, for hours at a time...
...Malay Archipelago and South America. In Montana, he has collected buffaloes for the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. A decade or so ago he became prominent in the game conservation movement and advanced a plan for establishing game sanctuaries throughout the country-not a few large ones, but many medium sized ones-on land not well suited for other purposes, sanctuaries where wild life could multiply under complete protection and spread over the surrounding country. Of late he has been Director of the Bronx Zoological Garden of New York City, has raised it to a high rank among roos...