Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Life. In Lawrence, Mass., Mrs. Dorothy Conant advertised: "For Sale, my husband's $50 puppies for $25, Tel. 34744. If a man answers, please hang...
...Athens' white, gingerbread courthouse a public mass meeting chose a minister and two businessmen to run governmentless McMinn County until the G.I.s could take over. Shootings and car-wreckings by armed bands of vigilantes continued. Big-jawed, towering Jim Buttram, twice-wounded corporal with the Ninth Division and manager of the G.I. Ticket, promised "to help maintain order...
...painted record turned out to be cheaper than color photographs, and had some of the infinite variety and savor of the handmade stuff-alongside which most modern mass produced items looked blandly dull...
Last week the Italian city of Milan buzzed with rumors of a secret society, the "Demons," under the leadership of a "Devil's Prelate," which practised the Black Mass in lonely country houses and Milan hotel rooms. The bare fact: for at least the 15th time in five years, consecrated hosts had been stolen from a church near Milan. (Authorities believe such thefts occur frequently without being reported to the police; also, that old women and children are bribed to carry hosts out in their mouths. Valuable jeweled pyxes, in which the wafers are kept, have not been taken...
...typical ritual, according to William Seabrook, late, hard-drinking popularizer of the incredible: "Before an altar surmounted by a crucifix turned upside down, and on which the girl who is a virgin lies naked, the black-robed priest intones parts of the true Mass backward, in dog Latin, substituting the word 'evil' for 'good' and the word 'Satan' for 'God.' The prostitute, robed in scarlet, performs the duties of acolyte; the goblet of wine is placed between the breasts of the recumbent virgin and a part of the wine is spilled over...