Word: mystical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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December 14 The Emergence of Delay and the Mystic Experience...
...Franck's symphony came next, mystic, scarlet-tinged. Then came Stravinsky's L'Oiseau de Feu sweeping its fantastic plumage through a maze of golden apples and silver trees, stripped a little of its diabolism, but gloriously exotic withal. There was the scherzo from Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream with its solo for Flutist Yeschke, new this season, and the dances from Borodin's Prince Igor, strident, barbarous, voluptuous...
...Rosenthal was, in fact, greatly respected by his friends in Manhattan and Brooklyn. He was a member of the Olympic Lodge, Kismet Temple, Ancient Order of the Mystic Shrine of Brooklyn, and owned several tenements which he kept in exemplary repair...
Estimates placed the expected attendance at 30,000,000 visitors before the exhibition closes on December first. An advance guard of the many conventions expected appeared last week, when members of 25 Temples of the Mystic Shrine hove to in the lee of many a side-show booth...
There are a great many delightful Babbitts who are working toward that poorer success which eventuates in a finer sense of values in the next generation. If the Kiwanis and the Mystic Shrine have a certain cheapness, the Mercury has cheapness of another kind. The difference is one of kind not of quality or quantity. So he who smiles at the advertisement which uses Mr. Babbitt as its motif must remember that really that gentleman is not much nearer cultural damnation than the readers of the jade journal of the eccentric reputation...