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Meanwhile, the earnest editorialists will discover occult influences at work. Diabolic, middlemen are wringing the shekels from the consumer's pocketbook. That demon, Inefficiency, hauntre of conscientious Americans, is implicated in the plot. The credit for the improvement of the market serves even to make a president, for, according to political medicine-men, it was the jargonish singsong of the last campaign which cast the devil of bankruptcy out of the farmer's "innards...
...rival whom he had never seen. The rival was murdered under circumstances of which he was mysteriously conscious. Shortly thereafter, his parents were also assassinated. In both crimes, a strange figure with a white head was curiously implicated. John Mark began to feel that he himself was in some occult way guilty. He came to grips with the white-headed man, strove with him, conquered him-conquered his own embodied will. This is no ordinary mystery story. It is a strange, bold plunge into the heart of man. The struggle of John Mark is the struggle of every man with...
...would cast "aspersions" at "Fighting Bob" La Folette's head, to fall into the Idom of the worthy Mrs. Malaprop. But followers of the shock-headed Senator may have seen an occult attempt to derogate when, just before the election, well known newspapers published a statement by a French scientist that great brains are usually small...
Black Magic is the story of Italy before and during the reign of Fascismo. It is a tale of the achievements of the black-shirted Italian legions who saved their country from Bolshevism, not of the occult and nigrescent rite of invoking devils...
...witch doctor of high repute," who danced around the barn uttering strange incantations. Still the cows and the calves and the sheep and the lambs died. A tailor from a nearby village turned up to have a look at the barn. He said he was possessed of occult powers, but after looking over the bewitched building, he shook his head gravely-very gravely, so gravely that the peasant sold it at a ridiculously low figure. The tailor resold at a magnificently high profit. The story came out in court, but the tailor and those to whom he sold were acquitted...