Word: mystic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blood & thunder could have instead from Fascist Playwright Luigi Pirandello, as that Nobel Prizeman landed in Manhattan last week, a comparison of Abraham Lincoln to Benito Mussolini who is going to free the slaves of Ethiopia. People interested in neither atrocities nor slaves but with a taste for the mystic were provided for by Fascist Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio. "You are going to victory," he informed departing Italian volunteers. "It is so inexorable-I wish to say fatal- to conquer...
...Siberian wilds where a family legend indicates that an ancestor named John Vincey encountered such a flame 500 years before. Thereupon She ceases to be concerned with test tubes and laboratory riddles, becomes an honest and ingratiating example of the pipe-dream cinema, full of glaciers, cannibals, underground kingdoms, mystic vapors and supernatural dilemmas calculated to arouse in audiences a mixture of amazement and despair...
...been in love with him for 500 years. The hospitality at the castle is good; the Queen's character, bad. When she tries to dump Tanya into a cauldron, Leo Vincey rescues her, runs away. He and his associates find themselves trapped in the cave of the mystic flame. The Queen jumps into the flame to show Leo that it will do him no harm. Instead of rejuvenating her, it turns her into an old lady. Muttering, in effect, "What am I up against?" she wilts to the ground. The Vincey expedition starts for home...
...class of second lieutenants that they must think of their responsibilities to the U. S. in peace as well as in war. Then, in a practical-joking mood, he returned to Washington to review the final parade of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. Sitting in a covered stand before the White House while the Shriners marched past him in a pouring rain, he was in high spirits, because by his telephoned request two of his best Roman Catholic advisers, Postmaster General Farley and SEChairman Kennedy, had hurried over to join him in honoring...
...until comparatively recent times did such painters as the late Léon Bakst and goat-bearded, mystic Nicolas Constantinovich Roerich attempt to start a really Russian school of painting, based on Russia's Byzantine iconographers. There were few examples of this at the Hammer Galleries. The sort of pictures that the Tsars and their friends liked were skillful paraphrases of British and French 19th Century portraits, sentimental landscapes, super-magazine illustrations. On view were five seascapes by Ivan Aivazovsky, a marine painter so beloved by Grand Dukes that they used to buy his pictures by the square inch...