Word: mortale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through the infernal blackness of the midnight jungle on an island "as yet not, self-determined by marines" fled Jones, Imperator. He was pursued by the tom-tom's beat, by the tax-leeched natives whom he had ruled, by voodoo devils, by the weakness of the mortal flesh. Three shots rang out. His Majesty fell, staggered forward, collapsed at the feet of Smithers, white, rum-soaked, trader. "Where's year 'igh an' mighty airs now, yer bloomin' Majesty? Gawd blimey, but yer died in the 'eighth o' style...
...Tiffany Thayer were a great deal better writer, this is the kind of book he might write. Phantasmagoria laid in a wilder California than mortal eye has seen. The Flutter of an Eyelid promises more than it performs, but puts on a garishly entertaining show. Says Author Brinig, through one of his characters: "It occurs to me that a writer ought to have both vegetables and flowers in his books. He ought to have everything in his books. The old idea of being one thing at a time, a romanticist or a realist, hardly fits in with the times...
...approval of the Church in offering novenas (nine-day prayers) in honor of the Virgin, and going on solemn Assumption processions through their parishes. The Assumption is one of six holy days of obligation for U.S. Catholics, on which mass must be attended as on Sunday, under pain of mortal sin. The underlying idea-that the body of Virgin Mary was taken up into Heaven-is universally believed by Catholics. Yet its origin is lost in antiquity. Some say that Mary died at 69, others at 72 or 75. Jerusalem and Ephesus both claimed to have been her death place...
Paterson's chiropractors still kept their offices open last week, but they were baffled and afraid. Unaware of any personal or professional grudge bitter enough to have provoked such terrorism, they and police believed that some Paterson paranoiac had conceived a mortal hate & fear of chiropractors, set out to exterminate them...
...catcalls, more than once had to drop his dignity and take to his heels. Of his anti-slavery poems Biographer Mordell says: "They . . . are too dangerous to be introduced into the schools. They still breathe that 'blasphemy' and 'sedition' of which vested interests are in mortal fear...