Word: loree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wildest of all are the rumors about what is done at the societies' meetings, for these begin twice weekly at seven and often last until four or five in the morning. Some say that naked male Negroes figure in one set of rites; that a secret language and lore are studied; that readings are held from the Classics; that there are rites of "purification" by fire and silence...
...Author. Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne was born in Manhattan less than 40 years ago, with a long north-of-Ireland genealogy. From three on, he grew up on the family estate in Ireland, getting faery lore and the Gaelic. His college learning was at Dublin, Paris, Leipzig; he served an editorial apprenticeship in the U. S. Until he wrote Messer Marco Polo (1921), few guessed his genius and there were money struggles, hard ones. His wife, Dolly Donn-Byrne, writes too-collaborated with Gilda Varesi on the play Enter Madame. There are four little Donn-Byrnes, including the twins...
...illustrated his first book of verse. A volume of stories, Master Frisky, woven about their pet collie, was well received and the blind man began to go back into the bright memories of a boyhood spent in woods and fields for the material of eight books of nature lore. Later he prepared animal stories by collecting and having his wife read him exhaustive data on the country and creature he wanted to write about. He wrote of bison, wolves, wild horses, reindeer, moose, bear, beaver. He laid his scenes in Kentucky, Alaska, France, Baffin Land, Norway, New Brunswick, the Adirondacks...
...know what's what about storytelling. That celebrated field naturalist, Director William T. Hornaday of the New York Zoological Park, has paid tribute to Mr. Hawkes' "marvelous fidelity" in describing the sunlit world he knew so briefly and in supplementing (as all good nature writing must be supplemented) with lore from trappers, hunters, birdmen, trainers. For imparting personality to his animal characters, he is another Kipling, though without that writer's fanciful propensity for endowing beasts with unscientific abilities...
Finally it appears that "a mysterious old woman, la vecchia Giovanna , . . taught Benito some of her magic lore. . . . 'My blood tells me,' 'I must listen to my blood,' are phrases sometimes used by this statesman-gladiator, so rational normally in coping with the urgent questions which confront him. 'It is no good!' he will add; 'I ' am like the animals. I feel when things are going to happen?some instinct warns me and I am obliged to follow...