Word: mysticisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week were: the Countess of Carnarvon, Vienna-born Dancer Tilly Losch; lean, stoop-shouldered Baron Edouard de Rothschild, retired head of the Paris branch of the international banking house (who declared over $1,000,000 in jewels to customs authorities), his wife and daughter; French Playwright Henri Bernstein; mystic Belgian Dramatist Count Maurice Maeterlinck, 77, his long white locks protected from the sea wind by a Göringesque hair net, his pretty, redheaded actress wife Renee, 45. Maeterlinck, who said he had nothing left but royalties from his play The Blue Bird, mourned: "I had my money...
...beings, he is merely a cultivated, steel-hard French Colonial businessman who seems to be unable to write badly. When he describes a primeval, half-witted stowaway he begins to warm up. When he writes of beasts and birds and reptiles, he is a blend of scientist, sensualist and mystic, but above all he is an exact and subtle artist, at ease in a world entirely his own. Demaison plans a series of volumes - for which his over-all title is La Comedie Animale - to do for the animal world what Balzac tried to do for the human. He stands...
...Cleveland's Common Pleas Court last week two aging tycoons, once inseparable friends, faced each other in bitter litigation. Plaintiff was tiny (5 ft. 3) Frank A. Seiberling, board chairman of Seiberling Rubber Co.. keen and dapper despite his 80 years. On the other side was mystic, eccentric, 275-lb. Edgar B. Davis, 66, oil & rubber man, who has made and spent four fortunes, given away some $6,000,000 to charity and friends because he believed his money "came from the good God himself...
Hoary Indian Poet & Mystic Sir Rabindranath Tagore, 79, cabled President Roosevelt his hope that the U. S., as "the last refuge of spiritual man," would "not fail in her mission to stand against the universal disaster that appears so imminent...
...Embassy in Paris received this affidavit: "I, Lloyd R. Stark, a native-born American citizen of Mystic, Conn., certify that Germans bombarded Malo-les-Bains, near Dunkirk. This is an open town, actually a seaside resort similar to Narragansett Pier, Watch Hill, Palm Beach and Malibu. I am seriously wounded in a hospital. Have lost all my property, as have many others. Request aid in food and clothing...