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In the five weeks since carrying the New Hampshire primary, he had proved himself a truly magnificent handshaker, fried chicken eater, baby admirer, Kiwanis hypnotizer and a past master of the big platitude.

From Time Magazine Archive

It will be remembered that a professional hypnotizer or magnetizer had hypnotized him by telling him to fix his mind on the number twenty-six and holding up his hand.

From Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use by Alpheus, A.

Herr Bech had just finished his playing, and, as he struck the last chord of "Death and Transfiguration," acidly remarked: "Tin must be a great hypnotizer, lieber Stannum!"

From Melomaniacs by Huneker, James

If the hypnotizer is an honest man, and a man of character, little injury may follow.

From Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use by Alpheus, A.

It appears as if the subject were awake at just one point, namely at the point of relation with the hypnotizer.

From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Woodworth, Robert S.