Word: loree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the Grail is restored to its keeper, the Prester John of early Christian lore, the reader sees murder done and a black mass sung, right in broad British daylight. In short, he enters the other world of Charles Williams (TIME, Nov. 8 et seq.), the English religious mystic who toward the end of his life (1945) set on paper a series of modern visions which he called novels (All Hallows' Eve, Descent into Hell...
...writes blonde, fortyish Florence Berger, Cincinnati housewife, in a book which may soon set many another Christian cook to beating her way to Heaven too. Roman Catholic Mrs. Berger's special combination of piety and kitchen skill has produced a new kind of cookbook as redolent of Christian lore as of herbs and spices. This week, as the National Catholic Rural Life Conference in Des Moines, Iowa rushed Cooking for Christ into print, Mrs. Berger explained how it all began...
Author Dobie's book is saturated with the lore of the range, the brush and the border country. It is the final word on its subject, and very nearly one of those classic studies that seem to sum up everything that has been written before it. A lack of focus weakens it, a discursiveness, and an argumentative mood about the anti-coyote policy in Washington. But at its best, it reads the way oldtimers talk, with a fine earthy mixture of courtesy and superstition, wisdom and independence...
...think I will) get the top secret FBI report which I described to Michael on Soviet . . . intelligence archives . . . When I saw the report I breezed through it rapidly, remember very little. It was about 115 pages in length; summarized first Soviet 'intelligence' activities, including Martens, Lore, Poyntz, Altschuler, Silvermaster...
...seasons gone by, a lot of bicycles passed into the repair shop as a result of Outing Club events. In 1942, the finish line was extended to Northampton, to the very gates of Smith College. This fact, however, has not carved a niche for itself in Smith College lore, perhaps because of the physical condition of the competitors upon their arrival...