Word: occultations
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...Auguste chanced to meet a sad-eyed seer who called himself Professor Pedro-"Expert in Things Occult." The professor listened sympathetically to Auguste's tale of woe, and bemoaned with him the cruel fate which kept lovers apart. "If only," blurted Auguste at last, "that husband would drop dead!" Well, murmured the professor soothingly, why not? A few hints dropped here & there to the right people in the spirit world-all the professor needed to do the job, in fact, was two pigeon hearts and 27,000 francs. Auguste procured both items...
...Actually, far from being an occult science, human relations is nothing more than good will-and applied common sense...
Actually, far from being an occult science, human relations is nothing more than good will-and applied common sense. Much of it depends on simple things, such as making a plant more comfortable, and a friendlier place to work. Virtually every big company now sponsors plant bowling, baseball, dances, etc.; Westinghouse abets employee operettas, orchestras, picnics, even shows movies in its plants during lunch hours...
...second day of the trial, Slater's counsel, plainly beyond his depth in the occult seas, quit the case and the dapper vaudevillian took over his own defense. Testifying for himself, he said he had hypnotized 25,000 people, and earned up to $15,000 a week doing it, without ever having had such a complaint before. Then, as his own lawyer, he asked Dr. Van Pelt: Is it not true that an anxiety neurosis such as Diana's could have come from an unhappy love affair? It could be, began Van Pelt, but at that point Justice...
Exactly which door is supposed to be the strange one is hard to fathom; probably it is the one in the RKO Boston, which assuredly has occult powers if it lures anyone in from the peace and quiet of Washington Street...