Word: hegira
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...Florida in picture hats. Now this, to the Vagabond, is altogether fitting. Not the vanishing of the pomp of little circumstance, but the drifting off of the girls. They have gone up into the collar like good Clydesdales and true and they should have rest from labor. But the Hegira, gentlemen, leaves Harvard strangely quiet and sorrowful and alone...
...Marxism After Fifty Years," by Harold Laski, reputed "barin" behind the former Labour party in England, and previous to that, professor of Economics at Harvard, leave only to be decided which is the Alpha and which the Omega of the theories, Laski, whose radical activities resulted in a hasty Hegira from this vicinity many years ago, sees the ultimate doom of capitalism--unless something unusual should happen, of course. He shows Marx's appeal to the underdog as the reason for this, an appeal outweighing Marx's theoretical inadequacies. He finds Russia to be the only country today in which...
...hardly ever corrected or patched what he had written. ... If he was dissatisfied ... he rewrote." Consequently his letters read more naturally than most authors'. In this 893-page collection, from which letters to Mabel Dodge Luhan (Lorenzo in Taos) are notably absent, you may follow his eleven-year hegira over Europe, Australia, the U. S., trace the progress of his love-affair with Baroness von Richthofen, first another man's wife, then Lawrence's, the tides of his friendships and quarrels, equally didactic and wholehearted. To Lady Ottoline Morrell he wrote: "Today we have a letter from Bertie [Bertrand Russell...
...against $29,851,069. Nor has the cherubic Hershey Trade Mark (see cut) had less reason than usual to symbolize smilingly Health, Purity and Nourishment. But there has been no gloom around the big, clean plant at Hershey, Pa. Those neighboring Mennonites who did not join the hegira to Brazil in 1928 still sniff the sweetish air, still curse their feeble appetites and mutter about "da chockle shtink" that permeates the neighborhood. Founder Milton Snavely Hershey, a ruddy-faced man of 74, still walks through his 50 acres of factory floor space, observing, commanding, happily nibbling. For while Hershey...
Various members of Radcliffe College believed that investiture was when lords and vassals exchanged clods of earth, that Hegira was a Mohammaden queen, and another that Hegira was a battle near Gibraltar...