Word: spiritualist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Georgia's Governor Herman ("Hummon") Talmadge was the butt of a joke last week. Hummon, the story went, called on a spiritualist to contact his pappy, the late Governor "Old Gene" Talmadge. "Pappy," cried Hummon, "how am I doing...
...adventuress. Born (1831) in the Ukraine of an aristocratic Russian family, she was married at 16 to General Nicephore Blavatsky, deserted him three months later to spend the next 25 years traipsing through European third-class hotels with a broken-down singer. For a while, she operated a shady spiritualist "society" in Cairo. In 1873, at the age of 41, she decided to try the New World...
...aristocrat Blavatsky lived at a lower East Side home for working women, picked up what jobs she could, such as designing leatherwork and making artificial flowers in a sweatshop. In October 1874, she read a newspaper account of séances held by the Eddy brothers in Vermont. Spiritualist Blavatsky promptly descended on the Eddys in a scarlet shirt and a whirl of exotic spirit controls...
...Negro was turned loose on a Chicago side street. (The Daily News set the ransom at $100,000.) Ed couldn't seem to remember the kidnaping, his connection with the policy racket, or anything else. But Bronzeville's memory was excellent. From the pool and dance and spiritualist halls to Dr. Pryor's Holy Floor Wash Factory and King Solomon's Temple of Religious Science, there was holiday. Big Ed was back...
...tells the story of a phony spiritualist who, in the midst of a seance she has rigged, finds a cold hand clutching at her throat. The audience never finds out if her assailant is mortal or ectoplasmic, but it sees a first-rate flagellation and a ghostly murder before the curtain rings down. Every word of Menotti's English libretto had the merit of being understandable, and some of the atmospheric horror music was more blood-curdling than Puccini...