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Word: mystic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...over the whole organization. But when neighbors disappear, when courts of justice are invaded; or, on the other hand, when the village poor family is supplied with food and money by a disguised visitor, then the Klan must be thought of as something more than a secret brotherhood with mystic rites and nothing more serious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "ARE YE FANTASTICAL?" | 11/22/1922 | See Source »

Andreyev is known as a mystic with a keen analytical power whose productions are both original and brilliant, and is said to paint contemporary Russian life with unerring strokes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW DRAMATIC CLUB PLAY SAID TO SHOW ANDREYEV IN MORE GENIAL SPIRIT | 11/6/1922 | See Source »

...Wait Whitman was a transcendentalist, a mystic, and a romanticist," said Professor Bliss Perry, in the seventh lecture of the series for the Radcliffe Endowment Fund, "A mystic," Professor Perry went on to say, "in that he thought the best way to understand the world was to observe it, not argue about it. He was a transcendentalist through his contact with Emerson, who was his inspiration. He came at the end of one phase of the so-called romantic period. Whitman was also the climax of the period of offensive American assertiveness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHITMAN-ROMANTICIST AND TRANSCENDENTALIST | 4/4/1922 | See Source »

...overrated "Lifiom". The hero, who, though an Irishman, is not a villain, goes to Heaven and completes a terrestrial romance with the soda-fountain lady of his dreams. Such is the plot, by far the least interesting part of the story. Much more important is a poetic, and even mystic, conception of great magnitude; every man's Heaven is a reflection of his Earth. Thus, Lorenzo the Magnificent beholds the dwelling of God as a vast, shining palace; the Egyptian slave beholds it as a sanctuary of a wordless mystery; Herlighy, from Eighth avenue, beholds it as a City Hall...

Author: By Robert WITHINGTON ., | Title: ABILITY AND VARIETY FEATURE NEW ADVOCATE | 3/7/1922 | See Source »

Benjamin, R. N., 193 Mystic St., Arlington...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON DIRECTORY OF FRESHMAN CLASS | 10/10/1921 | See Source »

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