Word: hegira
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...Murry intimates that Bertha Coutts. one of the least lovely characters in Lady Chatterlcy's Lover, was really Lawrence's own wife, Frieda von Richthofen, whom Lawrence at times hated but could not do without. Murry thinks Lawrence's horror of the War, his sense of persecution and consequent hegira to Italy, Australia, Mexico, the U. S.. his reiterated vituperation against all the Christian virtues, were really only reactions of impotence...
...rest of their duty: To guard the seals on their annual submarine hegira to the Pribilof Islands from the depredations of any hunters except Indians in canoes, armed only with spears or harpoons (TIME, March...
...this gray and wet week, the Vagabond has, however, found an item of peculiar cheer. He has never known which of the nine Muses that of Music is (some day he means to learn the names of all of them), but today he is making a short hegira to the Music Building at 10 o'clock to hear Mozart's Concerto in D minor. The score is written for two pianos and is one of the best known and most interesting of the composer's works, and the Vagabond knows that he will hear it ably rendered by Mr. Frank...
...Arthur's and the Lampoon, has advantages. When the Tunisian has become too grant for those who have shunned drinking deep they may find quick relief in gastronomic delights, or, by going up stairs, in stilled laughter. The inauguration of this institution is just another phase of the college hegira from the sanctuary of the Yard to the more rarified atmosphere of the riverbank...
...goes on to say that the list is made up each spring from the graduates of about four well known preparatory schools, that the Harvard Deans are forced each year to beg Boston hostesses to exclude Freshmen, and that a large number of departing students each year owe their hegira to over-active social duties...