Word: monke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hard to imagine Mr. Ford so wrapped in cotton wool that the major activity of his own magazine was unknown to him; that he was as unaware of what the Dearborn Independent was doing as if he had been a Tibetan monk."?New York...
...Tamaki Miura, Japanese soprano. Little Mme. Miura's fingers are like daisy petals in careful array. Her voice carries a suggestion of tartness. Her movements are all nicely studied. Her role is that of a 16-year-old maiden of ancient Japanese legend, in love with a Buddhist monk from the white mountain tops, possessed by a tyrannous Daimio, lord of the low, broad acres...
Author Gorky introduces characteristic figures-the hunchback brother who tries to hang himself for hopeless love, later becoming a monk, then losing his faith; women of various shapes and sizes, uniformly brainless except Pyotr's mother-in-law, who became his father's mistress; a pink-faced carpenter, a philosophizing ancient and that creature as indispensable to a Russian novel as are bobbed hair and bachelors to the Saturday Evening Post-the village idiot. But Author Gorky's powers, however fully displayed here, have produced books that were far more readable than this one. The action...
...noticed some time ago your statement that the Monk Rasputin obtained his influence over the late Tsar and Tsarina by his mysterious healing of the Tsars young son (TIME, Dec. 6). I would like to call your attention to the fact that there are many healers in this country, among the followers of "New Thought,' who can do just as seemingly mysterious things. If you will get a copy of Nautilus published at Holyoke, Mass., you will find many instances of equally mysterious healings. I myself have done as great or even greater healings than that of the Monk Rasputin...
...STORY IN FULL," "RAH, DADDY! HAIL, PEACHES!" There were semi-nude pictures of one Marion Dockrell, "female Oom," cult leader admired by Mr. Browning. Inane attention was paid to Mr. Browning's rubber eggs, baby dolls, clay puppies, infantile endearments, trick spoons. New screamer: "DADDY TO BECOME A MONK"-and a picture of the lecher in his office, the walls of which were entirely covered with pictures of females, ranging from small children to fully developed women. Even Mr. Browning, who took evident pleasure in the court rehearsal of his unnatural acts, finally pretended to be vexed with...