Word: spiritism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...geometric shaped ideas" magazine I should name TIME. . . . Sometimes I wonder if Voltaire or Anatole France are not included in the editorial staff. As a foreigner, in order to get a closer glimpse of American spirit I have read almost every kind of journalism actually published, and in my opinion, TIME gets the highest praise. The gallant stubbornness of its statements as well as the solid documentation in the background are amazing, and in addition you can always sense a subtle circumspection...
Sponsored by five very various organizations, the show was composed of properly variegated inclusions. There was nothing in it of breathtaking excellence; Albert Laessle's Billy, a statue of a capricious goat, was much admired by visiting children. Cyrus Edwin Dallin, whose Appeal to the Great Spirit, stands in front of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, sent in several small bronzes; Richard Recchia showed his Frog Mountain. There were, perhaps, too many fat little boys squirting water and too many totally unimportant garden decorations...
...spring at the various functions specifically constituted to provide such an opportunity. Such a function is the convention at present in full swing. At it some 1500 delegates have met to renew the associations of yesteryear, and bring back to their respective Clubs possibly something of the spirit with which they were imbued in their undergraduate...
Underlying all, however;, there is a certain serious spirit in the convention, a spirit which called it into being in the first place. A common intense interest in public questions and a keen desire to do their part in the political life of the nation brought the members of the Democratic Club together. Their convention tonight and tomorrow will be a jovial and lively climax to months of serious discussion and earnest work and the platform which is adopted will be the chief fruit of their labors. It will be a sincere expression of the opinions of Harvard's politically...
...bucket of water, a pencil and a sheet of paper with three names for identification. When the room was darkened, Conjurer Dunninger caused the paper to be snatched away and returned it with this phrase inscribed upon it: "A word from Houdini." Then there protruded from the curtain a "spirit hand" which the magician later admitted to be a paraffin sheath. Conjurer Dunninger said he would make the ghost of Houdini come; at this a spectre mewed at the newsmongers. Two slates bound together were found to have on their previously blank surfaces silly messages purporting to come from Rudolph...