Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hypnotists can put nine out of ten subjects into that deep pseudo-sleep. (Hypnosis is closely related to but not the same as sleep.) Automatic handwriting, mediumistic speech and the like phenomena of spiritualism can be rationally explained as exhibits of hypnotism. Stage magicians put their victims through all sorts of antics for the 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...
...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 used to believe that waving fingers diffused a sort of magnetism into the patient. No one has proved that theory...
...already famous after a five years' run in London, Marceline came to New York. The people who saw him during the nine years he played at the Hippodrome, damaged his reputation by trying to tell their friends how funny he was. "He just comes out," they said. "He sort of comes out on the stage and moves around ... he looks so funny . . . and his shoes, well they look like broken coal shovels . . . you have to see his face ... it makes you laugh. . . ." Marceline hated to be called a clown in those days. Clowns are the silly fellows...
...narrow chest of drawers" (5 ft. high, 8 in. wide, 12 in. deep). This furniture is intended for the smallish rooms of costly city flats. It is considered to be acceptable to the eye because "the exterior (skyscraper) architecture has developed a modern note of the most advanced sort and the eye is already trained to accept adaptions of this modern note within as well as without...
...hope," said Williams, "that the young man in college today will use a sort of trinity of tools for his education--first book knowledge that is derived from campus and quadrangle; second, overalls in vacation work which will help the student to get the feel of modern business and industries; and third, steamships by which, in vacations either by working his passage or by other methods, the student can get the feel of Latin-America or Europe...