Word: angellic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Masterson, in his lovable, dutiful way takes on the responsibilities of a great gentleman. From his stables he sends forth winners. He enters politics, not lightly but dauntlessly, to contest a Communist-infested slum district, which he "almost wins. Reverently, always, he rejoices in the angel, his wife...
...angel and a Virgin have gone to Detroit to live. Created by the chaste, cloistered brush of Fra Angelico in the 15th Century, they have come down the years unblemished, staying long in England and more lately in Manhattan. Their two panels form an "Annunciation" that is unquestionably the finest of Fra Angelico's work to be found in the U. S. today. Their former owner, Carl W. Hamilton, received a quarter of a million for them both from Edsel Ford, who, sailing for Europe just then, left them hanging in public for all Detroit...
...Harrington into Lost Valley and showed him, among other sites, a spot where Indians once caught eagles by lowering a brave down the face of a cliff in a rabbit-net made of red milkweed fibre. Down the Canada de las Uvas, (little canon of the grapes) one Angel Cuilpe, aged 104, showed him traces of wigwam towns; in Palm Canyon, one Juanito Razon, over 100, guided to ancient water holes, painted rocks, caves, sacred stones, magic springs...
...married a consumptive angel of 13? (See BOOKS...
...obtrusion of these two dead women upon Poe's subliminal nature is seen in the self-frustration of incipient amours before his marriage with a "consumptive angel" of 13, Virginia Clemm. She afforded him a public and private refuge from erotic impulses that he could not consummate. He called her "sister" and could pretend to himself that he had married for purity. Illness during her adolescence and a full stop in her mental development made this "purity" permanent. Her naive mother supplied the one other element-devoted care-essential to a little world where Poe's abnormality might...