Word: palming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Teeth. Still and all, it is a strange life for a man whose first two wives were Czar Alexander II's daughter Catherine and Vincent Astor's daughter Alice. Nonetheless, Obolensky, a gallant bachelor since 1932, continues to serve as a prized escort from Newport to Palm Beach. Age seems to have slowed him not a bit. He can still dance the night away, on festive occasions leaps up on a table and performs the lezginka with flaming daggers between his teeth...
...what do the lines mean? What is the relation between the palm and the future? Many people think that palmistry is a matter of predestination: that the palm indicates exactly what will happen in a lifetime. It is my belief, however, that the palm, if read accurately, gives a very clear indication of what is likely to happen in the course of a given life. There is an old saying about being forewarned and being forearmed, and it is extremely apropos in the matter of palmistry. Assuming that I am right in saying that the palm indicates what is likely...
Another experience, in West Virginia, was of a different nature. At a resort a young girl named Donna asked me to read her fortune. Her face in no way revealed her distress, but through her palm and in talking to her I learned that by age 15 she had already made five suicide attempts and was desperate for help and advice. We talked for over four hours, and I honestly doubt now that there will ever be a sixth attempt. In any event she decided to obtain psychiatric help. I am not trying to credit myself with a miraculous cure...
...third encounter may serve to an- swer the question whether I really believe in palmistry. In Hyannis last July I met a waitress named Janice, aged 47, who was particularly eager to have her palm read. I soon found out why: the life line on her right hand, and on her left, stopped abruptly at the age of 50. I was astonished, for this occurs in about one case out of a thousand. I asked her how her health was, and she replied, "It's all right." Not contented, I pursued further: "Do you have any trouble with your health...
...generally look first at the life line (the curved one nearest the base of the thumb) and give a prediction as to the length of life and the state of health along the way. The fortune line, sometimes difficult to find, is located lengthwise in the center of the palm, and gives an indication as to the subject's luck and money. Then there are the love and head lines, which cross the palm from left to right parallel to each other. The head line reveals to me the quality of the mind, the emotional set-up, and frequently...