Word: paraphenalia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...barriers between the man and the guide. Everything possible should be done to make the seeker feel free to talk in detail about his private life and his future hopes. To further this end, I believe that guidance should be done not in any bustling office, with its paraphenalia of efficiency, but in a comfortable room with comfortable chairs, across cigars or cigarettes. In an environment which bespeaks leisure and intimacy. In stressing the value of the human quality, the committee has done a wise thing...
...whole sale basis is a menace. Not only are his motives out of accordance with those of the college authorities but the very foundation of his pedagogy is erronous. He is trying to beat the game and he is likewise stuffing machine made opinions, quotations, and similar paraphenalia down the throats of his customers. Naturally he is not as cupable as are those who patronize him. But for neither is there necessary any condonation. The Paid Tutor is an evil; a popular evil but not certainly, a necessary evil...
...Howard Thurston played a trick on Calvin Coolidge. A stage was erected in the East Room of the White House; and the Coolidges (who are not attending public theatricals) assembled with a score of guests. Howard Thurston arrived with a moving van full of paraphenalia. With ducks, geese, pigeons, rabbits he prestidigitated. Then he took the President's watch, a gift from the Massachusetts Legislature, smashed it with a hammer, called for a loaf of bread from the kitchen. It was brought. Mrs. Coolidge cut it; and who would believe it??the watch appeared within, quite whole...
...regard to equipment the management advises the candidates to bring all that they have, but not to make any purchases without consulting the coaches, for fear of buying the wrong kind of paraphenalia. For the novititee who come entirely unprepared the necessary equipment will be provided...