Word: medium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amazingly fortunate in securing Donald Meek as the medium of his mordant observations. Mr. Meek looks the part; he expands its considerable qualities to the precise dimensions of brilliance by the extraordinary shrewdness of his playing...
Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor: " On Saturday, Nov. 24, a day of football games?Syracuse vs. Nebraska, Army vs. Navy, Yale vs. Harvard?I broadcasted the follow-ing sentiment throughout the country through the medium of the Hearst newspapers: 'Hard at work in some office, or factory, on some farm, or in some department store are young men that later will push a button summoning today's football heroes to their orders...
Most college men regard the realm of the psychic only as an inexhaustible mine of rather interesting stories, and a "medium" as a species of charlatan earning a living by making giggling girls jump. In view of this wide-spread "he-man" contempt of such stories "authorized by a grandam", it is surprising that Professor MacDougall received as many as six hundred replies out of the fifteen hundred questionnaires which he sent forth...
...various types of phenomena known as psychic. He said in part: "The first group,-- physical phenomena includes rappings, strange voices, the movement of inanimate objects "hauntings" and other outward manifestations of the supernatural--all the things, in other words, which constitute the stock in trade of an ordinary spiritualistic medium...
...investigation. The latest and most fashionable phenomena are those dealing with ectoplasm. It is a subject which has startled some of the most cold blooded investigators. Ectoplasm is the name given to the apparition of some vague white substance, which seems to exude from the body of the medium and then to assume shapes recognizable as the images of deceased persons. Investigation may reveal a new form of trickery or it may put us on the track of the discovery of some new biological theory...