Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voice of Walter, the spirit, and the voice of the psychic were recorded at the time. Laboratory tests made later showed that the spirit's voice was not the voice of Margery...
...warm woolen garment," Electric torches, large megaphones, bells, baskets, all illuminated by phosphorescent paint, formed the psychic's equipment. "Several professors wore illuminated Electric bands on feet and wrists, and illuminated marks fastened on the center of the forehead with tape." Twenty minutes after the session began, "Walter," the spirit, began to speak. "This is a nice, comfortable room: looks like the Charlestown Jall. What's this, a free country? To--with Harvard." The trance began. Later Walter asked Code to put the "doughnut," an illuminated paper disc, on the table. In doing so, Code touched the psychic structure...
...assessment of the price of socialism comes from Norman Thomas; for a socialistic burglar selected his particular summer home of all those on Long Island from which to filch fifty prime hens. For while Mr. Thomas was interpreting his doctrine literally by leaving his chicken shanty unlocked in a spirit of welcome to rich man, poor man, beggar man, and even to thief, the burglar seems to have taken him at his word. And the doubting Thomas awoke yesterday morning to find that a modicum of his store had been spirited away, because, to use his own ungracious phrase...
...find a new set of problems which will call for new treatment. It can, however, be confidently concluded that if such changes do occur Professor Williams, to a greater degree than most economists, will not be restrained by dogma and tradition from treating the new conditions in a spirit both open-minded and critical
...gray hide maculate with patches of glinting hairs, the beak, the swinging pink teats, its ebon Veneficium of Amor between almond eyes. The Beast slunk to the hearth where the Franciscan had established himself comfortably. "Be thou not afraid," the Holy Man intoned softly. "We are of the World Spirit, to comfort such as thou." Further events the Vagabond shall never recall clearly...