Word: nods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Tom Sawyer's amiable hocus-pocus got a nod of approval from a scientific quarter. Said Dr. Hermann Vollmer of New York in the current Psychosomatic Medicine: suggestion is "at least as effective" a cure for warts as X ray or surgery. He documented his case with the findings of French, German and Swiss dermatologists, outlined his own experiments with over 100 children...
With a few words, a knowing nod and a confidential elbow-push in the stomach, he convinced many a jittery second-rater that he was really a wildcat. His persuasiveness worked the other way, too. Johnston once whispered to mighty Jess Willard: "Jess, you killed a man in your last fight. . . . I just thought I'd warn you, my boy has a bad heart...
When human beings finally came to realize that their masks fooled nobody but themselves, their disillusionment had a new creative result. Naturalistic masks like the Museum's Tibetan Comic Monk (see cut) and Japanese No masks, whose expression could be altered with a nod, were put to use in stage plays...
...Nod. In Toronto, St. Clair Hilborn, charged with giving his son a lethal dose of sleeping pills, explained that he had been hexed by a black cat which shook its head at Hilborn, nodded significantly...
...gristle on an uncooked thighbone. Both women were completely bald-the result of radioactivity. They were also in the last stages of hysterical fatigue, for day & night they had to fight off assault waves of rats, whose fecundity seemed to be increased by atomic action. If both women should nod at once, even for a moment, the revolting masses would be on them, and the rats, with their ingenious minds and uninhibited pragmatism, would be the heirs of the lost-atomic world...