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...Agnew, Punch Director): ' Americans have a better sense of humor than the British because they have the British to laugh at. The British can't laugh very well because it is difficult to laugh over adenoids, with which all Britishers are afflicted.' " Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler...
Then there's someone named M. Merton Fernandez, who thus describes Mae Murray...
Stimulated by the recent British pronouncement as to needed inventions (TIME, May 28), American technical men have come forward with their own suggestions of the most necessary innovations. Elmer A. Sperry, Lee De Forest, Frank B. Jewett and William Murray agree in substance that new, cheap sources of fuel or other forms of energy are the most urgent needs of the age. Other suggestions include: inventions to supply the fundamental necessities of food, clothing and shelter; means of world communications; a practicable method of eugenic selection...
...States: Mrs. Ira Copley, Illinois; Mrs. Francis Clark, New York; Mrs. Edward Everett, Boston; Mrs. Charles Hamlin, Miss Hamlin, Washington; Mrs. Frederick Manning, daughter of Chief Justice Taft of the United States Supreme Court, New Haven; Mrs. Percy Morgan, Miss Kathleen Gelshannen, Miss Philippa Wendell, New York; Miss Mary Murray, Miss Helena Caperton, Virginia; Miss R. L. Abernathy; Kansas City; Mrs. Cyrus H. K. Curtis, Philadelphia; Mrs. Harvey Norman, Washington; Mrs. W. L. Walter, Mrs. W. L. Rice, Miss Rice, New York; Miss Sylvia Lathrop, England, formerly of New York; Miss Rebecca Smith, Mrs. E. T. Sweeney, Columbus, Ind.; Miss...
...number of eminent men have been convinced exponents of supernaturalism. The movement sprang largely from the British Society for Psychical Research, organized in 1882, among whose founders, presidents, or sympathizers have been numbered Lord Balfour, Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir William Barrett, Alfred Russell Wallace, Lord Rayleigh, Prof. Gilbert Murray, F. W. H. Myers, Sir William Crookes, Andrew Lang, Prof. Henry Sedgwick, Richard Hodgson, Sir James Barrie, Conan Doyle, and in France, Professors Henri Bergson, Charles Richet, Camille Flammarion. In Germany, Z�llner, Fechner, and Weber, all distinguished scientists, were confirmed spiritualists. In the United States, similar organizations have enjoyed...