Events involving this person
Mrs. Roosevelt imagines her son clean-shaven
Description
Mrs. Archibald Roosevelt, who came to him once a month and has just been killed in a car accident, was ashamed of her son's beard grown in Egypt; Neville told her to kiss him smooth-skinned in imagination, and he later read in the Monday paper of the son's wedding, clean-shaven — but she credited the girl he married, not the imaginal act.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1965 (possible)
- before 4 September 1965
Told
4 September 1965
(doubtful)
Sources
- Source: Order Your Conversations Aright ¶17 (So, I said, “Now, Mrs. Roosevelt, you know what a kiss of your son would be like without the beard, don’t you?” “Oh, yes,” she said. “Well, kiss him and he doesn’t have a beard. Put your arms around him, and kiss your son, and see the nice, smooth skin a…)
Mrs. Archibald Roosevelt rents her town home after imagining Long Island
Description
Mrs. Archibald Roosevelt, daughter-in-law of Theodore Roosevelt, came to Neville monthly for years; unable to rent her New York town home, she followed his instruction to sleep in imagination in her Long Island house, and the next day a tenant took the apartment with immediate occupancy and paid the whole summer in advance.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1966 (possible)
- before 4 January 1966
Told
4 January 1966
Sources
- Source: Your Future ¶10 (Her name is Mrs. Archibald Roosevelt, the daughter-in-law of our late Teddy Roosevelt. She came to me, in fact she came once a month, at least once a month, for a period of years.)
before 1966
(possible)
Neville describes his own practice of hearing back from students only when something fails, and having grown indifferent to whether the law appears to work.