Word: loree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such as the Cainites came to believe that Judas acted as he did to hasten the redemption of mankind, and the scholar Origen maintained that the betrayer hanged himself to seek Christ's forgiveness as soon as possible in the next world. And somehow there crept into Judas-lore a famed, odd detail: that Judas hanged himself upon a flowering tree whose blossoms turned red in shame. The Judas or redbud tree flourishes in the South of the U. S., and last week it made news in Oklahoma...
British Toxicologist C. J. S. Thompson, honorary curator of the historical section of the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons and author of The Mystery and Lore of Monsters (Macmillan, 1931) takes the Bible's version of Goliath's height, computes it at "about...
...inspired by her. Later the Lord's reaction was more nearly what she wanted: when some highborn ladies snubbed her at a dinner party, Clontarf married her. The ill fate that brought him his death in the hunting field five months later banished Marie from his land. Gypsy lore indicated that in four generations, when "the blood was cleansed" she might return. Back in Ireland after fleeing from the Spanish Revolution, Marie's granddaughter Marie (Annabella, this time a blonde) tumbles off Wings of the Morning, her grand mother's Derby candidate, into the life of Kerry...
...Golfer Montague proved, there remained last week the glamor of legend about most of his doing: Since he never appears publicly, all accounts of his prowess come from his friends. If available reports about Golfer Montague are accurate, Columnist Pegler was last summer guilty of serious belittlement. Montague lore...
Legend is that the numbers game was invented in the office of the New York Sun, was spread by its routemen throughout the city. The game rooted fastest in the Spanish section of Harlem, where the residents were steeped in the lore of lotteries. From there it spread into the adjacent colored quarter, where it has kept a large part of the population poor ever since. Metropolitan Life has had trouble with wholesale lapsing of insurance policies throughout Harlem from the beginning of the numbers mania. The game has spread far beyond the borders of Harlem under the high-pressure...