Word: angells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same. Vorge has only to hear of Quinette in connection with a woman's mysterious disappearance to assume (on no grounds) his guilt. He seeks him out and, in a state of mind half parlor-game, half maniacal sincerity, woos him as a "Master," a "Dark Angel," the modest herald of Rimbaud's "heyday of assassination." He drives the tricky, mousy little murderer nearly witless with hypnosis and fear. Inevitably too, he is no more enmeshing than enmeshed. In rage and shame as an amateur, a rejected disciple, he is drawn at length into a botched attempt...
Died. Bishop Horace Mellard DuBose, 82, elder statesman of the Southern Methodist Church, author, editor, temperance leader; in Nashville. Vowed dry Dr. DuBose in 1932: "If the Angel Gabriel should come down and tell me that he had changed his mind on prohibition and wanted it resubmitted, I would not follow...
...found Indians praying around a little child in a chair, dressed in white lace and embroidery, her hair decorated with tinsel and with silver wire. She had been dead several days. There were paper wings attached to the dress. The major-domo explained: "The child, who is now an angel up in heaven, is ... carried about in processions from house to house . . . until it is in such a state of decay that it can no longer be enjoyed." Finally it is placed in its coffin, "with the words 'adios, mamacita' on the lid, and the properties are returned...
...Last week the Chicago Opera was in the middle of its six-week season. This year's new angel and ardent publicizer: Publisher Robert ("Bertie") McCormick of the Tribune. There were other novel ties. A chorus whose average age was 25 tickled Chicago eyes as well as ears. The Ballet Theatre, which earned huzzahs at its Manhattan debut last year, joined forces with the singers. Last fortnight a performance of Carmen got columns of publicity: in the last act 18 Chicago cops, led by Chief of Traffic Captain David Flynn, took turns appearing as Spanish dragoons riding nine police...
...Cockcrow: one swears he knows Him not; Thence is a Church begot.)- was the angel Gabriel in disguise-who crew also in Eden when Eve plucked the forbidden fruit, and will crow again ("in the days of great persecution of the Jews, and of intestine wars") when Satan, soul nauseated by his triumphant corruption of the world, prays God to put an end to mankind. Since Gabriel's first cockcrow, seven Messiahs have done their miraculous best to redeem mankind. But their efforts only went to convince Donne in the 17th Century-and only go to reconvince Olson...