Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unassuming genuineness and a smile that begins at the eyes and spreads down all help to atone for the vacuity of her blond, fashion-plate lover, Mr. Gene Raymond. Miss Sydney is one actress whom Hollywood does not miscast. She is given the parts she does best, parts in mental positions which permit her to look up adoringly and a little abjectly to the men of her heart...
...adequate opportunity to observe the work of each individual. At the end of the year, the men will be divided into three groups. Those in the first group will be exempted from the examination; the second group, to continue, must qualify in an oral examin- ation designed to test mental ability and not memory; the third group will be advised to discontinue...
...Mental Radio* Upton Sinclair described a great number of experiments in which Mrs. Sinclair as "percipient" seemed to have telepathic powers. He would draw six or more pictures on separate sheets of paper and fix his attention on each in turn. Meanwhile, at a safe distance, percipient Mrs. Sinclair would let her mind "go blank" until she felt knowledge stirring within her. Then she would draw what she felt her husband had drawn. Sometimes he would wrap his drawings in opaque green paper before he put them in envelopes. In such cases he would sit by Mrs. Sinclair while...
Congruity between his original and her mental versions was very often astonishingly close. For example, he sketched a water hydrant. She drew water coming out of a nozzle...
...makes everyone his puppet until almost the end, is brilliant. The play's humor, its best recommendation, is raucous rather than subtle. There is an obvious attempt to "play to the orchestra" with weak puns and irrelevant jokes more suited to a musical comedy. Few of them require much mental effort, and yet many of them are really funny...