table-rapping

It is well worth reading, as much for its frankness and sprightly charm, as for the table-rapping element.

Archive 2009-06-01 2009

It is well worth reading, as much for its frankness and sprightly charm, as for the table-rapping element.

Princess Marie Louise 2009

She also enjoyed spiritualist table-rapping sessions, low-cut gowns, and conspicuous consumption.

American Connections James Burke 2007

She also enjoyed spiritualist table-rapping sessions, low-cut gowns, and conspicuous consumption.

American Connections James Burke 2007

All such bogy stories as those of your “Philopseudes,” and the ghost of the lady who took to table-rapping because one of her best slippers had not been burned with her body, are gravely investigated by the

Letters to Dead Authors 2006

Half the appeal of early table-rapping had been the filmy-draperies-and-nothing-else clad female "spirits" who drifted tantalizingly among the male seance goers, fogging up their spectacles and preventing them from thinking clearly.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

Do you remember Gracey Marriner, who he was so friendly with over that table-rapping business?

Ultima Thule 2003

After six ballots, the Cincinnati convention chose Horace Greeley, longtime editor of the New York Tribune, who had supported every crackpot enthusiasm from communism to table-rapping to phrenological tests for train conductors.

America's First Dynasty Richard Brookhiser 2002

One fad of the day which particularly amused Gauss was called “table-rapping,” in which a group of otherwise intelligent people would sit around a table with their hands placed in an arched position upon it.

Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001

One fad of the day which particularly amused Gauss was called “table-rapping,” in which a group of otherwise intelligent people would sit around a table with their hands placed in an arched position upon it.

Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001