Word: medium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This week brings the charming profile of Boston's better medium again into the public print. Margery the only ectoplasmic wonder in this center of American decorum, has once more been called ill names...
...Horace Greeley was a onetime schoolmistress who never learned to keep house. A contemporary thus described her: "Mrs. Greeley was a woman rather below the medium size, thin, with dark hair and eyes. She had thin lips, irregular and somewhat defective teeth. There was little expression in her face, but that little was rather against her. She spoke quickly?not peevishly, nor angrily, as a rule, but her words had a kind of crack like the report of a rifle." Horace was kind and patient with this woman whom he addressed as "Mother." She kept cows which "Mother says shall...
...Park Theatre, told a Crimson reporter yesterday before the matinee. "In the field of art one must adapt his or her environment to the personal element. I have experimented with artistic designing, dancing, the cinema, and the stage in order to see which would be the best medium for expressing my individuality. It is an interesting quest but has no definite destination. At last, however, I can safely say that I have succumbed to the fascination of the legitimate stage. I intend to give it most of my time because it not only demands more than the screen but because...
...University that he became prominent in the public eye during the investigation of the "Margery" case, Professor McDougall was among those who undertook the investigation of Mrs. Crandon's mediumistic activities. He reported that he was not convinced that there was anything super-natural about her performance as a medium...
...religious work of the Phillips Brooks House Association is carried on chiefly through the medium of the various affiliated societies such as the St. Paul's Catholic Club and the St. Paul's Episcopal Society. It is distributed, however, through almost every activity of the house. For instance, the Social-Service Work includes some which is nothing short of definite religious leadership. Another phase of the Association work which has a definitely religious stamp, is that of the Deputation Committe. This Committee has sent out seven "teams" of from two to twelve men to near by communities on weekends during...