Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cinema public which finds physical abnormalities funny. Good songs: Empty Saddles, I'm an Old Cow Hand from the Rio Grande, If You Can't Sing It You'll Have to Swing It. Good shot: Crosby singing a lullaby to Cuddles, while the stowaway goes to sleep in a corner...
...Great White Lodge of the Himalayas, which he considers to be a survival of a great university in Atlantis, "sunk by the selfish powers of mankind about the year 254,666 B.C." He believes that man has not only an astral body which leaves the corporal shell in sleep or death but an etheric body even more refined than the astral. He has composed a kind of "music" which consists of combinations of colors. He once offered to do the Hindu rope trick in London's Albert Hall for $275,000. He has invented a thought-reading machine called...
...makes it abundantly clear that there is nothing mysterious or difficult about the technique. All that is necessary is for the subject to relax, drive all thought from his mind, fix his attention on some object (usually a bright light), listen to the operator's soothing suggestions of sleep. The hypnotic state resembles sleep except that the unconscious mind is in touch with the operator and can be swayed by his suggestions. Almost everybody, unless he is confident of being able to resist and does resist, can be hypnotized into the first "light" state; three persons out of four...
...Miami, H. H. Farr awoke to find his pillow spotted with blood, a tiny cut in his nose, deduced that in his sleep he had punctured himself with his stiffly waxed mustache...
...adventures of a "man of smoke" in a nameless kingdom. Prescribed by the publisher as good for what ails "the tired businessman; the psychiatrist, psychologist or Freudian; the political radical or conservative; the artist, philosopher or poet; the scholar, teacher or student," Perela should put them all to sleep in short order...