Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kennedy had an idea that "unconscious whispering" might help explain the high percentage of correct guesses recorded by Rhine. A person trying to convey telepathically one of the five symbols on the ESP cards to another person's mind might imagine that he was shouting the symbol at the top of his lungs, and so might unconsciously move his lips or alter his breathing. These slight sounds might furnish valuable cues to a person with acute hearing, or to a half-hypnotized person whose normal hearing was sharpened. Dr. Kennedy used blindfolded subjects who were not told the purpose...
...fight the A. M. A., that he would drop proceedings if the A. M. A. would stop chivying the cooperatives. Said he: "The department does not take the view that the offences committed are crimes which reflect upon the character or high standing of the persons involved. The analogy to which this proceeding should be compared is that of a prosecution for reckless driving committed by a person of distinction and good-will who is in a hurry to meet his legitimate engagements...
...front page the moment his body hit the sidewalk. Editorial writers reacted instantly. The comforting New York Times asked: "Is life worth living?" answered: "Of course life is worth living," mentioned a few of the things worth living for: "... a majestic sunset or moonrise ... an understanding look in another person's eyes. . . ." The crusading New York Post noted the extensive efforts to save the suicide, asked: "If so much could be mobilized for one man, how much could be accomplished by a fully awakened common effort against hunger, slums and sickness?" The philosophic Washington Post considered Warde "a modern...
...addition to its own intense egocentricity, Hollywood's concern with show business is obviously prompted by the necessity for showing off personalities who have made a hit on other stages. Letter of Introduction thus serves as a vehicle for Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, who function simply as themselves. Ventriloquist Bergen introduces a rival to Charlie in the person of a dummy named Mortimer. Minute effigy of a country bumpkin, as hideous, crude and amiable as Charlie is tart, slick and natty, Mortimer chatters for only one sequence, after Charlie has taxed Edgar Bergen with ingratitude, but this...
When Marshall W. Hoyt of Natick, Mass., died, a person who said she was Mrs. Grace T. Hoyt gave the body a regulation burial and went home to wait for her slice of Hoyt's $20,000 estate. Before the will had been probated, Eugenia Wilson Wackenmuth of East Port Chester, Conn., and J. Gilbert Wilson filed a claim that the person named Marshall W. Hoyt was really their aunt, and therefore obviously not a husband and unable to leave a widow-beneficiary. Asked about the sex of the corpse, Undertaker Frederick A. Gibbs shook his head, mumbled about...