Word: ishmael
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only Oklahomans but the rest of the U. S. sat up and took notice when it appeared that Oklahoma City schools were odd not only at the top but also at the bottom. Haled before their high school principal for persistent hooky-playing, Milton Walser, 19, and Manford Ishmael, 18, airily explained that they had been busy leading a blackshirt movement to establish a new political and economic system in the U. S. by "bloodless revolution...
Walser, a dark lad with curly hair, was "commissar," and Ishmael, who wears a wisp of black mustache, was "vice commissar" of a secret group calling itself "C?C" (Curiosity Club). Its members, 24 boys, nine girls, all wore a uniform of black shirt, black breeches and black boots. Male members also were expected to grow mustaches. Meeting in members' houses, they discussed sex, atheism and a program they distilled from Plato, Aristotle and Edward Bellamy's Utopia. Specific points in their program: less restrictive marriage laws, more sex education, a plan (a kind of first cousin...
Undecided whether they had chanced upon a "communist" or "fascist" plot, public officials promptly investigated. Assistant County Attorney E. W. Brown summoned Commissars Walser & Ishmael, vainly demanded the names of other members. In Washington Chairman Martin Dies of the House Committee Investigating UnAmerican Activities wired for full details. Said he: "This is very important...
...belief that if a childless couple adopt a baby they may soon after produce one of their own is as old as the Bible. Abraham's Sarah bore Isaac 14 years after Ishmael entered their Canaan tent. Jacob's Rachel finally bore Joseph and Benjamin after Jacob begat ten sons and a daughter by other women of his tenthold. A reasoned explanation of such phenomena was offered last week by a zoologist of Burlington...
Claude Vannec, a young French archeologist who feels himself an Ishmael, is on his way to Cambodia, obsessed by dreams of Asia: "The marching forth of armies in the scented dusk loud with cicadas, the horses' hoofs stirring up dust-clouds dark with slowly veering columns of mosquitoes, shrill cries of caravans beside the tepid fords, envoys waiting for the tide by mudflats spangled with shoals of stranded fish, blued by a mist of butterflies above, and old kings rotten with caresses-and then that other dream, the dream that never left him. of shrines and gods of stone...