Experts and Authority Figures
The Language of Handwriting
You know the scene in old movies when the cops or some other authority figure calls in the handwriting expert? The expert examines the sample handwriting and confidently proclaims, "The writer was a sixty-five-year-old widow, who grew up in Romania, and has been a turkey farmer for the past three years." Well, now you too can become such an expert, by studying this volume at the Internet Archive.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 12, 2023 -
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Category: Experts and Authority Figures, Movies, Pseudoscience, 1950s
Right and Wrong in Fashion
"Street Fashion Critic:" good excuse to ogle women.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 16, 2019 -
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Category: Experts and Authority Figures, Fashion, 1940s
A Manual of Gesture
All the things to do with your person while performing in public.
Full text here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 22, 2019 -
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Category: Body, Etiquette and Formal Behavior, Experts and Authority Figures, Nineteenth Century
Cabin Pressure
Cabin Pressure from Matthew Lee on Vimeo.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Apr 20, 2019 -
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Category: Antisocial Activities, Bad Habits, Neuroses and Psychoses, Death, Elderly and Seniors, Experts and Authority Figures, Regulations, Stop-motion Animation, Air Travel and Airlines, Alcohol, Goofs and Screw-ups
Toxic Psalms
Just in case you can't discern the merits or purpose of this piece on your own, here is The New York Times to explain it all for you.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 12, 2015 -
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Category: Experts and Authority Figures, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Avant Garde, Dance, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Causes of Lunacy
I love these reasons for being committed to the lunatic asylum, as given in this report for the year 1836.
"Repelled eruption" confused me, until I found this sentence from a text of the same era: "If the insanity succeeds the suppression of a cutaneous disease, of a fetter, an erysipelas, or any other repelled eruption, vesicatories are the means, par excellence : they are preferably applied upon the place where the disease at first existed."
And almost thirty years later, many of the "causes" were still present, as seen below in this report for the year 1891.
Browse through more reports here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Sep 16, 2014 -
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Category: Experts and Authority Figures, Nineteenth Century, Brain Damage
Mr. Anthony’s Love Clinic
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Read the whole issue here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 03, 2014 -
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Category: Experts and Authority Figures, Sexuality, Sleaze and Sleazeballs, Comics, 1950s
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