Word: patient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Farm Relief. With the U. S. farmer, President Coolidge was patient, instructive...
Foreign Relations. We are friendly once more with Mexico. We have straightened out Nicaragua. China, "that unhappy country," will be a problem indefinitely. We can afford to be patient, generous, liberal. "Proposals for promoting the peace of the world will have careful consideration. But we are not a people who are always seeking for a sign. . . . The heart of the Nation is more important than treaties...
Like a physician who cheers up his patient by showing professional enthusiasm over unique features of the case, Secretary of Commerce Hoover, national disaster-doctor, last week told Governor John E. Weeks of Vermont that he "would be delighted to be associated with the people of Vermont" in rehabilitating the state;* that the New England flood was unparalleled because of the rapidity with which so much damage had been done...
...causing the ridiculous or mischievous while under the suggestor's spell. They fear also that the skillful will to which they might submit themselves might make them perform unwonted acts after they awoke. Neither of these fears has authority. The physician using hypnotism makes no sport with his patients. Even in hypnosis a patient only most reluctantly performs against his inherent moral nature. Awake he does practically nothing of the sort. Hypnotism does, however, permit the operator to penetrate so deeply into the personality of his patient that no one dares play with...
...person has consented to hypnotization (and consent is practically always essential) the simplest procedure is to put him in an easy posture. An easy-chair is excellent, a bed less so because it takes practice to be at ease while in bed and with a relative stranger present. The patient fixes his eyes steadily upon an object placed so that he must strain his sight slightly. A monotonous sound, as from a metronome, drum or chant aids in putting him into somnolescence. The physician may pass his hands slowly and regularly before the staring eyes. But that is unessential. Mesmerists...