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...methods, however, were unique. He psychoanalyzed Chicago politics by the "word association" test. Specimen Chicagoans, from steer-stabbers to brokers, were told to blurt out their immediate reactions to the examiner's key words. "Alderman" suggested the professor. "Grafter," quickly replied one citizen. Another said "crook." Another said "big cheese," another, "bay window." "City hall," posed the professor. "Politics . . . graft . . . corruption," came the spontaneous reactions...
...been accepted as a better-than-average risk by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. A keen baseball player, he exercised summer and winter. His physicians declared his death to be due to septicaemia (resulting evidently from the scratch of a cat), which might have overcome the most perfect physical specimen...
...machine itself is a splendid old specimen: a strong, high-backed, Spanish oaken chair equipped with an iron collar and a plunger just beneath. A powerful lever at the back of the chair tightens the collar, strangles the condemned, at the same time forcing the plunger into the back of his neck, dislocating the spine. It was this ingenious antique which Minister of Executions Francisco de Pineda prepared to operate last week with his accustomed deftness, but in very special circumstances...
Late to arrive in Minneapolis was Arthur Hind, Utica, N. Y. plush tycoon, owner of the "world's rarest stamp," the only known 1¢ British Guiana of 1856, for which he paid $32,500. philately's greatest price. Cut octagonally, magenta in color, not a particularly good specimen as stamps go, this unique scrap of paper was "discovered" in 1872, when it sold for six shillings...
...specimen of the verse (Cavender with his wife's ghost...