Word: mystic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enough to let them become bored. Served in a lump, the Gosden-Correll humor is less digestible. Amos & Andy stall their cab on Broadway, carry on business as usual in the barnlike headquarters of the Fresh Air Taxi Company in uptown Manhattan. They go to a meeting of the Mystic Order of the Knights of the Sea, talk to Madame Queen on the telephone, mispronounce words of four or more syllables by the formula of substituting "re" for "dis" as in "regusted," and "ul" for "or" as in "incorpulated." The story deals with a party to which Duke Ellington...
Irving T. Bush, president of Bush Terminal Co., back in the U. S. from honeymooning in Europe with his third wife (former Marian Spore, Michigan heiress, Manhattan mystic and social worker) paid without protest $83,000 in duties and fines for undeclared jewelry worth $40,000. Officials stated there was no attempt at smuggling, simply a dispute over duties on jewelry purchased in the U. S., reset in Europe, brought back. Their fines paid, the Bushes sailed once more for Europe...
Never did a Government stand in such need of "first class brains"; but the Earl was never worse cast than in his new role. To Birkenhead's cold, precise, savage legal mind Indian statesmen with their loose, mystic reasoning from aspiration and intuition were mere weaklings, chuckleheads, loons. By his arrogance to the meekest people on earth he sowed resentment wide and deep, possibly is most to blame for the present fierce sprouting of St. Gandhi's movement in more virulent form than ever before. (The Earl himself blamed James Ramsay MacDonald's "wishy-washy milk-and-mushiness!") He resigned...
Replied the Victorious One, mystic, wistful: "The proposal to make me President of the Turkish Republic for life runs utterly counter to my ideal. The precedent of a lifetime presidency must never be established! The complete sovereignty of the people is inherent and must always prevail in republican regimes...
...16th Century Spain, inquisitors twice imprisoned St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, on suspicion of heresy. Inquisitors also accused St. Teresa, reformer of the Carmelite Order, of canonical misconduct. Her mystic Concepts of the Divine Love brought censure. She was saved from punishment by King Philip II, morose religio-maniac...