Word: magic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prom those two magic words seem to carry with them a feeling of superiority; they smack of the elite. University of Colorado Proms are the most democratic in the country yet somehow even they stand out. Truly, the Prom is The One Event of the year...
...student suffers from morbid depression and a copy of McDougall is found on her shelves, her plight is put at the back door of the Psychological Clinic. It is known that abnormal psychology deals with the subject of hypnotism, and hypnotism has its parentage rooted in charlatanism and black magic. Sex and other so-called "Freudian material" tabooed by squeamish and soft-boiled natures are included in this domain. There is a rumor abroad, moreover, that psychopathology advocates the removal of repressions; the very repressions which all parents in an attempt to subdue "Old Adam" have so diligently planted...
...Concord, visiting his relatives, when the word came that the College boys had, literally, raised the Devil. Prexy saddled his horse and hastened back to Cambridge to find that the report was true. The students were thoroughly frightened at something--whether a practical joke or a bit of black magic, the reader can best decide. Whatever it may have been, the President's remedy was masterly. Emptying his powder horn on the Hall floor, he solemnly exorcised the Evil One, and then, touching off the combustibles with a live coal, literally blew the Devil out of Harvard College...
Seeing her bow was strange. After her chameleon magic, it was hard to believe that she was real at all, that her own personality existed outside of the many personalities which it is her ability to inhabit. Under the control of an illusion still, you felt that maybe this was another imitation, that Ruth Draper was really; someone else inside of this small, alert, bowing actress...
When wound up, Les Moineaux Avares pick at pebbles with uncanny realism. Massacre! is a re-named old-fashioned toy-merely a cardboard shooting gallery in which figures of men and women may be laid low with a popgun. For some occult reason there seems to be selling magic in the new name...