Word: psychics
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...irrepressible psychic bidder, Kaplan opened the bidding with a heart; when his partner finally raised him to six hearts, Kaplan nonchalantly bid the seventh...
Kaplan blandly explained that when his partner supported his heart bid, he deduced at once that North must have at least four trumps to the Ace King. His stab-in-the-dark psychic landed the pair in the highest makable contract. Most teams wound up with a safe but unprofitable bid of seven diamonds. Players who got to seven spades, an apparently more logical contract than hearts on South's holding, went down on West's inevitable opening lead of the club Ace, which forced the declarer to ruff and eventually gave West a trick in spades...
...least, that would be the right thing for them to do. How they get together in the first place is the picture. She (Goddard) is pinch-hitting for a fortune-teller who is taking the day off. He (Milland) happens to run into her, and the pseudo-psychic predicts they will come together. Milland doesn't know Paulette is the fortune-teller, however, and she plays a double role: as the fortune-teller and as a gay young immigrant from Texas. Naturally, there's a third woman, a client of Mr. Milland (a counsellor whose clients are all beautiful women...
...using strong soaps, disinfectants, germicides and patent remedies on themselves, on their families and on all objects and utensils. . . . Once they are convinced that they are not 'unclean,' not a menace to themselves and to others, patients with superficial ringworm [athlete's foot] infections experience great psychic relief." A real cure of athlete's foot, the doctors add, often depends on eliminating the use of skin-damaging chemicals...
Like human beings, they showed their psychic illnesses in many ways. They developed "anxiety neuroses," their fur stood on end, they crouched, they trembled. Some refused to eat, or became food faddists. Some became catatonic cats...