Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knew that they were fighting fundamentally because Mary wanted to get more fun out of life while Jock wanted to make more money. Bill saw true love withstand marital unfaithfulness; he even tried to help it withstand the end of Jock's prosperity in 1929. When the rehabilitating spirit of 1935 reached the alcohol-sodden and philandering Jock, Mary felt she had a right to leave him, since he did not need her any more. Once more Hallam, loving Mary still, proved that he loved more his now habitual role of family friend...
...front of the reviewing stand. German Weightlifter Rudolf Ismayr mounted a tiny rostrum, recited through amplifiers so everyone could hear: "We swear that we will take part in the Olympic Games in loyal competition, respecting the regulations which govern them and desirous of participating in them in the true spirit of sportsmanship, for the honor of our country and the glory of sport." A German choir sang Handel's Hallelujah Chorus, the athletes marched slowly...
Spiritualists, however, claim to know much about the afterlife through their contact with the departed. To their body of belief was added this week a notable book supposedly transmitted from the Spirit World by a New England farm boy named Wilfred Brandon who claims that the Revolutionary War ended his earthly life after 19 years in 1781. Incarnation, a Plea from the Masters*; was "dictated" by means of automatic writing to Edith Ellis, a playwright and onetime actress, now in her 70's and author of a current London success called The Lady...
Wilfred Brandon is the most modern-minded U. S. spirit to tell earthlings about his own particular brand of the Hereafter, a realm which has been most conspicuously charted by such Britons as Rev. G. Vale Owen and Sir Oliver Lodge. The fact that Brandon uses such contemporary words as "job" and "fun" he explains by recounting how a number of "Masters" (i. e., veteran spirits) transported him "by their mental power," on a lengthy tour of the great cities of the world. The ability of spirits to visit the Earth, Brandon makes clear, has nothing to do with their...
...incarnation, to most Spiritualists a controversial subject, Spirit Brandon is positive. He declares spirits may, if they are smart, abandon their memories of their last life and return to earth as a new personality in a new body. As developed by Astral scientists and practiced with the aid of seasoned Astral physicians, the simplest method involves merging any spirit with the body of an earthly infant of five to eight weeks. "The act," reports Spirit Brandon, "requires the physician to see, in his mind's eye, the spinal cord of both the child and the soul...