Word: performance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...laughter and admiration of audiences.** Consequently U. S. people, even though they might know the value of hypnotism in sickness, fear 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...
When he writes for the American Mercury (and sometimes in his Senate fulminations), Senator Reed permits himself to perform feats of epigrammatic agility. "Give me the radius of a man's intelligence," he has written, "and I will describe the circumference of his tolerance." And, "The nobility of the mighty dead cannot be lessened by the puerility of the living." But the fair-day crowd at Sedalia, Mo., would not enjoy epigrams. What Senator Reed gave them last week was a good old-fashioned balloon ascension with oratorical sandbags dropping on Republican malefactors. Sedalia, Mo., pronounced it Senator Reed...
...Costes, in the same Brequet plane that vanquished the Atlantic, had made non-stop flights from Paris to Siberia, and again from Paris to Persia. So ably did his ship perform on every occasion (it averaged 110 miles to the hour over the Atlantic), many people thought that, if the weather had been possible this summer, he would have succeeded in a proposed flight from Paris to Manhattan...
...Naples, Italy, the Baroness Appolonia Alessandra Markwiart killed herself. She left a note asking that the many photographs of famed Tenor Beniamino Gigli which cluttered her room be buried with her; and another note saying: "Don't perform an autopsy. Don't cremate me. Let me meet...
...wheel-horse" is faithful, hardworking, unpicturesque, seeking no glory for his labor, ever ready to perform tasks for the organization when others shirk...