Word: brocken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Henry Brocken, His Travels and Adventures (Wed. 9 p.m., NBC-Blue). Poet Walter De La Mare's story adapted for radio by Patrick Riddell, set to music by Dr. Armstrong Gibbs...
...young de la Mare let his black hair grow long and wavy, attired himself according to his idea of the Latin Quarter. And while he kept others' books he wrote three of his own: Songs of Childhood (under a pseudonym, "Walter Ramal"), Poems (1906). Henry Brocken, his first novel. Scholarly Herbert Asquith being Prime Minister, Bookkeeper de la Mare was placed on the Civil List for a pension of ?100 a year. Though he has often had to make the pot boil in various ways he never went back to an office. Hard worker, he has published more than...
...Wernigerode, Germany, some hundred skeptical psychic researchers climbed to the top of Mt. Brocken at night, smeared a goat with blood, honey and the scrapings of church bells, incanted the Latin Abracadabra. Urta Bohn, selected as being "a maiden pure in heart," officiated. Said Fraulein Bohn: "I guess I am as well qualified as any girl nowadays." The experiment, to discredit an old superstition by failing to change the goat into a young man, was successful. Next day Maiden Bohn was in bed with a severe cold...