Word: matriarchic
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That, 40 years ago, was Mary Harris ("Mother") Jones, famed organizer of strikes and unions, Irish-born, matriarch of the new and struggling United Mine Workers of America. Aged almost 60 at her first strike, she led violent mobs, faced bullets, bayonets, stumptalked despite police for many a year. Her tongue lashed the "tyrants" opposing union labor, her wit roused the drooping morale of many a waning revolt. The climax of her career as a labor agitator came at the mine "massacre" at Ludlow...
...contrast to her earlier saga of the Jewish Matriarch's passionate assumption of power, Author Stern now tells the story of an Anglo-Saxon mother's fluttering desire, not for power, but for filial devotion, which is doled out to her spasmodically, and none too generously by a generation impatient of self-sacrifice. With wit and wisdom Miss Stern divides her sympathies, but indulges of course the side of radiant, reckless youth...
...were later called the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, hid from persecution, were sealed in by their pursuers and miraculously awoke 200 years later. They also found fragments of the earliest city of Ephesus (10th Century B. C.) with traces of Kybele, the locality's particular version of the divine matriarch common to many religions in the Mediterranean Basin before the spread of the sacrificial Son-of-God form of religion...
...their normal indulgence towards a dowdy little bitch, cast a dream-like veil over the whole episode. Not until May, when her kennel rolled with black puppy-shapes, was she sure that she had really heard the Dark Gentleman's lyric blandishments. Author Stern, social chronicler, (The Matriarch, A Deputy Was King, Thunderstorm), now deserves a niche no whit below Christopher Morley's (Where the Blue Begins), from dog-lovers. If he could read it, Toes would ejaculate: "Great Spratt! I say, you chaps, that is a book! My copy is all dog-eared." It would impress...
...WIFE-Dorothy Canfield-Harcourt, Brace ($2). Mote, beam and matriarch...