Word: amuletic
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Among the new finds at Ife (pronounced Ee-fay), where antiquarians have been digging up terra cotta fragments for years, were two bronzes (see cuts) that rank as masterpieces: ¶ A 19-in. statue of an Oni king in full regalia. Standing barefoot, clad in skirt, an amulet centered on his beaded hat, the Oni in bronze wears a bib of beads (presumably coral), a knee-length strand of larger beads (probably carnelian or agate), bead anklets, and wristlets. In his right hand he clutches a mace, in his left a ram's horn, the symbol of authority. Slightly...
...actors along too in its gale. The workers, actual miners of the New Mexico local, carry conviction in their savage setting as trained actors could never do. The best of the worker-players is Juan Chacon, real-life president of the union local. Ugly and cold as an Aztec amulet, his heavy face comes slowly to life and warmth as the picture advances, and in the end seems almost radiant...
...Chicago press wire and thought I would give you a call at the same time. There is a terrific amount of activity in Payco Gold Mines. The price is now 40½. . . . The stock will definitely touch around $1 on this move. Four years ago I suggested Waite Amulet. This mine is within striking distance of the Payco mine. It moved from 84? to $3.05 in eleven weeks [actual time: 52 weeks]. ... I would like to make a commitment for you on that Payco...
...intervening 726 pages are only indirectly Reeves's story. In that instant there leaps into his mind the tormented figure of Jeremiah, the prophet of doom, who in the reign of King Josiah had leaned against a pillar in the Temple and stared at a leather amulet on his wrist as Reeves had stared at his wrist watch. The rest of the story is really Jeremiah's. It follows him back to his lonely childhood outside Jerusalem, through his exile, apostasy, agony, to his final peace. His wife, like Reeves's wife, had died in Egypt. Because...
...Mongol hunter, mulcted out of a silver fox skin by a Russian fur tycoon, runs amok and flees for his life. In the mountains he encounters kinsmen embattled against the White army and joins them. He is captured, shot, left to die, then nursed back to life when an amulet which accident brought him convinces the White general that he is progeny of great Genghis Khan. The wily White general sets him up as a puppet ruler to insure peace amongst the surly Mongols, but the hunter, confused and bewildered at first, suddenly discerns his enemies' intentions, goes Mongol...