Word: mystic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...policeman caught them. A judge fined them each $5 & costs. Speaking before a Knights of Pythias convention at Cincinnati, Senator James John Davis of Pennsylvania advised "everyone to join some organization in order to express oneself.'' Senator Davis is a Moose, Mason, member of the Mystic Shrine and the Grotto, Knight of Pythias, Odd Fellow, Elk, Eagle, Forester, and a member of "many other fraternal orders." He also belongs to Chevy Chase, National Press, Congressional Country and Burning Tree clubs in Washington, and to the Americus Republican, Dequesne and Atlantic clubs of Pittsburgh...
...Orleans Luck Powder . . . Money-bringing Luck Bags, Holy Oil, and Dragon's Blood . . . Mystic Brahma lodestones . . . The Great 7 to 1 Dream Book...
...endeavor must be made," urged the Royal Commission, "to enhance the efficiency, to heighten earnings and to improve conditions of life. . . . Poverty leads to bad conditions and inefficiency, inefficiency and bad conditions to poverty." Thus the Royal Commission discovered a 20th Century vicious circle similar to the mystic Hindu Wheel of Karma: a series of events everlastingly repeating each other from which the only escape is violently to break the wheel...
...rich brogue, taking his coat half off to fight imaginary enemies, leaping on chairs to deliver political orations. His gross cartoon of an aged playboy of the western world comes off admirably, although the walls of Dublin's hallowed Abbey Theatre, where Mr. Sinclair used to perform mystic Synge dramas and nationalistic plays with the Irish Players, probably trembled when he accepted this role in rough-&-tumble farce...
...representatives from England, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, Mexico, Rumania, and Jugoslavia went on a sight-seeing trip to avoid hearing a judge from Palmyra, N. Y. read for three hours from a list of amendments to the order's constitution. One amendment was a prohibition of smoking during the mystic rites...