Word: crone
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...small red bull dashes around a bend on a frozen river pulling the lead trace of a sledge, a husky dog snapping at his hocks, a" nervous German prospector clinging to the baggage. ... A polar she-bear defends her cubs. . . . An Indian child and crone slay a swimming moose with a hand-ax. . . . A cunning wolf robs fishnets. . . . An Indian tries to sell his frozen baby as dogfood. ... A pickerel attacks a gull. ... A starving fisher outwits a porcupine. . . . An old man enters a shed to feed 18 unchained lynxes. . . . An Indian lad fills his dead father's post...
...play is primarily a picture of an ill-natured old woman, and for many months it was held by the Theatre Guild as a vehicle for their favorite actress, Helen Westley. Margaret Wycherly plays the part in the present production with quavers and acidity admirably suited to the crone. Whitford Kane is somewhat less successful as the old taxidermist, who is a greybeard Pollyanna. There is also a girl who is deceived by a strutting young musician and a serenely suffering mother. All these combine in what might have been an excellent study of mediocre domesticity had it not been...
...great; good stuff, and new too; what other paper had the courage to tell the truth about Alexandra? Since the readers of the News think, as they read, by pictures, a remarkable tableau rose in their minds: They saw the Dowager Queen in her last moments-a bejeweled crone lifting her glass for the last time in a toast, perhaps to the physicians who had tended her. . . . "Good old sport!" they murmured...
...crone was taken sick in the Calle Margaritas Cervantes, where Vespaciano lived. He cured her by repeating a formula, which his neighbors whispered to each other afterward with frightened glances. But there was no fright in the woman. She worshiped him and came to his patio the next night with a crippled friend. The women were joined by an old man and a boy, and every evening after that, when twilight enchanted the Calle Margaritos Cervantes, a grotesque company came up the blue street one by one and knocked on the door of José Vespaciano...
...psychic aunt, Stella, and the gibbering of an idiot aunt, "poor Jinny" ?torments Tamar, tells her a curse is in her blood, inescapable, unclean. Tamar, fearless and fire-souled, refines her sin, lays the ghost by seducing her father. All are consumed?sin, protagonists, accessories?when the idiot crone Jinny, childishly embracing her candle for a star, turns the old house into a holocaust...