Word: cultist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eager anthropologists have snatched some from the flames and last week a few of them were on display in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. For its big midwinter show, the Museum-which often baffles outlanders by its cultist concern with the ultramodern descendants of Dada-put on an excellent exhibition which may baffle them more: 400 strange South Sea objects ranging from hand-painted skulls and intricately carved canoes to an immense stone head...
Married. Margaret Rutherford, 53, the late Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt's daughter who became ballerina, cultist (Oom the Omnipotent), husband collector; and Prince Charles Michael Joachim Napoleon Murat, 53, great-grandnephew of Napoleon Bonaparte; she for the fifth time (once before to Murat), he for the second (she was also his first); in Manhattan...
...Spanish count who had served under Napoleon, was a sort of primitive Pavlov. He used to seat the nervous little girl astride a cannon and fire it off again & again while, with the one good eye the wars had left him, he studied her reactions. Eugenie became a Napoleon-cultist, a frenzied romantic. After the death of her father, Eugenie and her mother wintered in Paris, where the new emperor, Louis Napoleon, fell passionately in love with her. But her marriage (in 1853) was no love match; she was infatuated by a symbol, and managed to trap...
...told FBI rounded up 84 Negroes in Chicago, four in Manhattan, with more to come in other northern and midwestern cities-cultist-puppets who, FBI believes, are jerked by the Japs to stir up racial trouble. Last week FBI began arraigning them on charges of sedition, pro-Japanese activities, draft dodging...
...byword because of his beguiling skill at inventing and solving murder mysteries and sundry crimes. Such is his fame that he is kidnapped by a racketeering evangelist (Conrad Veidt) for the express purpose of devising a police-proof way of eliminating a human stumbling block to an inheritance the cultist has his eye on. Put to the test, The Fox-assisted by some expert mugging and a knowledge of radios -not only traps the evangelist but manages to produce considerable hilarity in the process...