Word: mysticisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nationwide radio audience, Wallace lashed out at his opponents: "They are not fighting a starry-eyed liberal or mystic. If they really thought that, they wouldn't be worried. They are fighting against sound principles upon which America can survive. . . . They are fighting against the survival of capitalism. . . . They are fighting you, and millions like you to the third and fourth generations...
...late Tsar Boris had also been interested in technology-he had a passion for driving locomotives (see cut). The People's Court learned that he had also been a mystic. Yordan Lutcheff, a royal councilor who was also on trial, reported that Boris had been a member of the secret sun-worshipping sect of Dunovists. Founded 25 years ago by a Professor Dunov, who died in Sofia last week, the sect numbers some 700 men & women. Each summer the Dunovists climb Mount Musala, Bulgaria's highest mountain, in order to be nearer the sun. They also chant hymns...
...Mystic Tsar Boris may have died by Mystic Adolf Hitler's orders. Prince Cyril declared on the witness stand that he was "convinced" that the Nazis had murdered his brother. On the return flight from Germany, said Cyril, Tsar Boris was given an oxygen mask impregnated with "a strong solution" which caused embolism and death. The Germans claimed that he died of a heart attack and a lung ailment...
...Author. Like his subject, Author O'Neill is something of a mystic, interested in spiritualism and the Society for Psychical Research. A onetime printer's devil, he was a page in the New York Public Library when he met Tesla, began to read the scientist's books and became a science reporter. For his coverage of Harvard's Tercentenary in 1936 he won a Pulitzer Prize...
...obsessed Germans as haunted by a terrorist secret society, older and more dreaded than the Sicilian Maffia. The origins of the Feme go back to the year 1200. Ostensibly an arm of the Holy Roman Empire, the Feme really stemmed from pagan traditions. Its extralegal courts were held under mystic linden trees, on open hilltops or beneath great oaks. The paraphernalia included a two-handed sword on which the members swore, and a noose of linden fibers for the victim. The sentence of its secret tribunals was always death...