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...getting into trouble with the constabulary and lesser officials, who are nearly all Christian natives. The big Moslems and the little Christians are always stepping each on the other's toes, then sticking a knife each in the other's ribs. Periodically the constabulary has to be sent to mop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Pax Americana | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

...begin to understand until the evening that some Buckinghamshire beech-leaves in a Moscow Road flower-shop smelled like the rustling wood to whose edge she had often come in her autumn imagination. She went at once to live alone at Great Mop in the Chilterns. There, after some months that were not without weirdness, a starved kitten scratched her hand and her own blood sealed her knowledge that she was a witch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION,NON-FICTION: Sam Smith | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

...Leak, her Great Mop landlady, recognized Lolly's awakening and took her as a matter of course to the very next Witches' Sabbath. It was in a hedged field about midnight, and very vivacious. But village witches and warlocks are a rustic, hysterical lot. They wearied Lolly, before long, and angered her a little. When Satan appeared in a guise suitable to their company, she rebuffed his advances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION,NON-FICTION: Sam Smith | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

Near Milwaukee, in an insane asylum, John Kuehn, 57, "a man of mystery," seized a heavy mop. One Albert Joe did likewise. They duelled. John Kuehn was slain. Albert Joe, the victor, was subdued by guards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jan. 26, 1925 | 1/26/1925 | See Source »

...Mop Fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jan. 26, 1925 | 1/26/1925 | See Source »

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