Word: occultations
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...they too might experience the joys of the epicure before the Pops or a movie. The Vagabond has ever cared deeply for the Olympia. Every now and again American food becomes too prosaic, too jading for the appetite. Then a baked chop, rice cooked with the aid of some occult Greek necromancy, and Baclava make a meal worth the cating. Down near the market there is the restaurant which was an institutions of our fathers', Durgin's. A good trustworthy place. The Vagabond finds it, that satisfies the most lusty paunch. And after the evening's sportiveness he is wont...
...Trilby except that the character of Trilby (Marian Marsh) is played down and Svengali played up. Barrymore handles all the artifices of the acting trade with gusto and intelligence. He meets Trilby at the time when she has fallen in love with a charming English aristocrat and by his occult power charms her away from her true love so that he can make money exploiting her bell-like voice. He can hypnotize her at any distance, and one of the best shots in the picture suggests how his influence bores through the night. over the rooftops from his window...
...eccentric old gentleman who infests a most attractive old country house invites a casual stranger to spend the night. It turns out the old gentleman is a student of the occult; the stranger takes no stock in such truck, but before the night is over he changes his mind...
Annie Wood Besant (rhymes with either incessant or pleasant) is an old woman (83) popularly associated with occult ritual and mystic robes. She is still president of the Theosophical Society, but perhaps you didn't realize she was once a parson's wife, an atheist, a Socialist, a beautiful spellbinder...
...hero of her tale is a strange Finn. Dr. Tawaska. A cold, mysterious fish of a man, he travels unobtrusively over the world, investigating occult mysteries, appearing at long intervals to Caroline, "the woman with white eyes," to listen unsympathetically to her news, to announce that life is literally a dream, to accuse her of being asleep. "You are asleep with your eyes not quite closed, slits of white showing." Caroline invariably admits the truth of his suave impeachment but to date (aetat. 60) has done nothing much about it except call for madder music, stronger wine. At last, however...