Word: mysticism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This gag, Greek to the average reader, has a mystic meaning to the New Yorker staff which publishes it once a year. It is a memorial to a type of U.S. humor which The New Yorker helped to bury...
What was in the letter? What had been said at that mystic tryst off the rock-bound Coast of Somewhere? While the whole world cupped its ear, the Ministry of Information permitted correspondents to cable that His Britannic Majesty's Prime Minister had refused an option on 600 of the long, three-shilling (60?) Havanas he loves...
...hungry Athenians the historic heights of the Acropolis last week offered a mystic portent of hope. Atop the serene ruins fluttered three flags: the native blue-&-white of the tough, proud erstwhile kingdom, flanked on either side by the arrogant swastika and its impudent Italian companion piece...
...with the mind of a lightning calculator, what it was that his country would need. He was an Asiatic expansionist before the Manchukuo Incident, a totalitarian seven years before the Konoye reorganization. The crew haircut, the round, boy's face, the carefree smile, the candor, the courtesy, the mystic organ-note of his speechifying, all mask the hard core of the opportunist who has made of himself what he is and hopes to make of himself still more...
Baron Hugo's band will fill the air with sweet, and Chloe Merimee, the noted Croole mystic astrologer, has been persuaded to abandon her retreat in the heart of old New Orleans to lend atmosphere to the proceedings...